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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=A1E58B5D-A58F-4D7F-8841-9FA2761B9078 | : News August 19 | 2013-08-19 | 2013 | 2013-08 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News August 19 Monday, August 19, 2013 Senator Sanders Veterans Health Care Sen. Bernie Sanders will be discussing veterans' health care needs at a news conference in Burlington today. Sanders, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, will be joined by the director and co-acting chief of staff of the VA Medical Center in White River Junction. Sanders' office says the VA now serves about 8,600 veterans at clinics in Colchester, Brattleboro, Rutland, Bennington and Newport, The Associated Press and WPTZ-TV reported. LINK, VIDEO Student Loans “The massive earnings the government gets on student-loan programs amount to a crude backdoor tax increase disguised by cynical legislators (who hesitate to ask constituents with more powerful lobbies to help cut the deficit) as an investment in America's youth,” according to Rolling Stone. “It's basically a $185 billion tax hike on middle-income and low-income citizens and their families,” said Warren Gunnels, senior policy adviser for Sen. Sanders, one of the few legislators critical of the recent congressional student-loan compromise. LINK ‘I Have a Dream’ Reflecting Sunday on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Sen. Sanders said there have been “mixed results” in the decades since the historic march led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders. A 22-year-old college student in 1963, Sanders rode a bus to Washington, D.C, to participate in the march. There has been significant progress in the past half century “breaking down the barriers of discrimination and segregation,” Sanders said on MSNBC, but “in terms of economic justice, I would say that in many ways we are worse off.” VIDEO Stafford and the Environment Bruce S. Post, who was U.S. Sen. Robert Stafford’s state director, questioned in a Rutland Herald column why Stafford was left off a list of key environmentalists compiled by the executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. LINK World Egypt A day after the Egyptian government acknowledged that its security forces had killed 36 Islamists in its custody, suspected militants were reported on Monday to have killed at least 24 police officers in an attack on their minibuses in the restive northern Sinai region.The new bloodletting, on the sixth day of a state of emergency imposed after security forces killed hundreds of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi last week, punctuated a continued political stalemate in Egypt’s crisis as military leaders and their Islamist foes vowed to keep up their fight over the country’s future, The New York Times reported. LINK U.S. Aid The State Department has put a hold on financing for economic programs but whether to cut off the remaining $585 million in military aid available to Egypt this year was one of the questions that awaited President Obama as he returned to Washington from a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, The New York Times reported. LINK National Obama, Financial Regulators to Meet on Monday President Obama will meet with top financial regulators Monday at the White House “to discuss the progress that has been made in strengthening the financial system, including the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,” the White House said Sunday evening according to The Wall Street Journal. LINK Sequester Cuts Head Start Head Start programs across the country eliminated services for 57,000 children in the coming school year to balance budgets diminished by the federal sequester, cutting 1.3 million days from Head Start center calendars and laying off or reducing pay for more than 18,000 employees, according to federal government data scheduled for release Monday. The Washington Post said the cuts will affect tens of thousands of poor families across the country who rely on Head Start for early learning programs, day care and a network of social services and medical care. LINK Sequester Grounds Federal Workers Five months after gridlock in Washington triggered the deep spending cuts known as sequestration, much of the United States government is grounded. Most government travel budgets have been cut this year by 30 percent, the result of an administration directive forcing managers to make difficult policy decisions about whom to send, where to send them and for how long, The New York Times reported. LINK NSA Violations ‘Just the Tip of a Larger Iceberg,’ Say Wyden, Udall Two Democratic senators say new reporting by The Washington Post about invasions of privacy by U.S. intelligence is ”just the tip of a larger iceberg.” The senators made that statement in response to a Post report outlining violations of privacy rules by the National Security Agency, according to Roll Call, after the Post published a copy of a top secret internal NSA audit report identifying thousands of “incidents” in which the NSA ran afoul of court orders and other rules governing intelligence collection. LINK Vermont Leahy on NSA Spying Sen. Patrick Leahy announced he would convene yet another hearing on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. Leahy’s announcement came hours after the Washington Post reported on an NSA audit that revealed the agency had improperly obtained thousands of private communications, the Vermont Press Bureau reported. LINK Leahy at GE in Rutland It could have been mistaken for a campaign stop, if not for the fact it’s not an election year. But there was Sen. Leahy working the crowd, or in this case, GE workers, who lined up to greet Vermont’s senior senator on a tour of the massive GE Aviation plant last week. Leahy, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is pushing the Navy to develop a new version of the F414 engine – the GE-built engine that powers the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter and the E/A-18 Growler, an electronic attack aircraft, which can jam enemy air defense systems, the Rutland Herald reported. LINK Irene Recovery Some cities and towns are continuing to recover from Tropical Storm Irene. But federal funds are still available to municipalities and nonprofits with unfinished community recovery projects. The money comes from the Competitive Grants Program, part of the Community Block Grant Disaster Recovery funds, provided by HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Vermont Public Radio reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |