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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=AE5B0C78-B415-4ABD-A146-F435AF50E62D | : News August 30 | 2013-08-30 | 2013 | 2013-08 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News August 30 Friday, August 30, 2013 Senator Sanders Irene Recovery The Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide funding to replace much of a state office complex in Waterbury which was destroyed two years ago by Tropical Storm Irene. An agreement was reached with the Federal Emergency Management Agency that will provide nearly $90 million of the $125 million dollar price tag for the new complex. The Vermont project benefited from provisions in legislation passed after Hurricane Sandy. Sen. Patrick Leahy said he and Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch worked the halls of Congress to make it happen, the Burlington Free Pressreported. LINK Vermont Yankee Entergy's plan to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant may pose new challenges for the local economy in Vernon, The Deerfield Valley News reported. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Entergy’s decision as a step in that will allow Vermont to "focus on leading the nation toward safer and more economical sources of sustainable and renewable energy." LINK Vermont Yankee “We all need to … preserve … jobs and assure the safe storage of highly radioactive waste that will certainly remain at the site for decades to come … [Sen.] Sanders is a high-ranking member of the Senate energy committee … and can fight for the funds and directives that will force Entergy to decontaminate the Yankee site now to create jobs and ensure community health and safety,” Lissa Weinmann, a World Policy Institute senior fellow, wrote in the Brattleboro Reformer. LINK Fighting Bob Fest Progressives will gather in Madison, Wis., on Sept. 7 for the annual fest that will be crammed with many national and local speakers to discuss the issues facing both Wisconsin and the nation. Sens. Sanders and Tammy Baldwin are on the schedule. Sanders is in the middle of the fight to save Social Security and Medicare from those who want to privatize the two successful programs for the elderly, Dave Zweifel wrote for The Capital Times. LINK Intern Pay The vast majority of senators who pay interns are Republicans. Of those 35 senators, only 11 are Democrats. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, pays interns, according to The Atlantic. LINK Corporate Welfare Conservative columnist John McClaughry should “sign up for a fall internship in Bernie Sanders’ office in Washington. There, he might learn [how] corporate welfare … is bankrupting America,” Phil Stephan wrote in a letter to the editor of theRutland Herald. LINK Singing for Bernie Middlebury College graduate Laura Heaberlin is making a splash in Vermont's local music scene. In a video posted online by the Burlington Free Press, Heaberlin said she played at a rally for Sen. Sanders when she was just 16 years old. “I got to play an anti-war song at the rally, which was really fun for me,” she said. VIDEO World Obama Set for Limited Strike on Syria as British Vote No President Obama is prepared to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria, administration officials said Thursday, despite a stinging rejection of such action by Britain and mounting questions from Congress. The negative vote in Parliament was a heavy blow to Prime Minister David Cameron, who had pledged his support to Obama and called on lawmakers to endorse Britain’s involvement in a brief operation to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for apparently launching a deadly chemical weapons attack last week that killed hundreds, The New York Timesreported. LINK Administration Tells Lawmakers of Evidence Linking Assad to Attack The Obama administration presented its case for possible military action against Syria to congressional leaders, including evidence from an intercepted phone call involving a high-level Syrian official, which a lawmaker said officials offered as proof of a government chemical-weapons attack. The evidence was part of a 90-minute, unclassified briefing delivered to the congressional leaders in a conference call Thursday evening, The Wall Street Journal reported. LINK Emerging Markets Pass Advanced Economies For the first time ever, the combined gross domestic product of emerging markets has passed the combined measure of advanced economies, according to an International Monetary Fund report cited by The Huffington Post. LINK National Fast-Food Strikes Thousands of fast-food workers went on strike in over 60 cities Thursday to protest unfair wages, Politico reported. LINK White House, Republican Senators End Budget Talks The Obama administration and a group of Republican senators abandoned efforts Thursday to hammer out a budget deal and avoid a showdown over the national debt, saying they had failed to resolve their long-standing dispute over taxes. “It’s very evident that there just isn’t common ground at present and we’ve all agreed there’s no reason for these talks to continue,” Sen. Bob Corker told The Washington Post after attending the group’s final session at the White House. LINK Reprimanded Doctors Get VA Bonuses The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded performance-pay bonuses to doctors who were disciplined or reprimanded. A Government Accountability Office report said a $7,663 bonus went to a VA doctor who was reprimanded for practicing medicine with an expired license, for example, and a $11,189 bonus was given to a surgeon suspended without pay for 14 days after leaving an operating room before surgery was completed. “VA's performance pay and bonus system has absolutely nothing to do with performance,” Rep. Jeff Miller, the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs chairman, told USA Today. LINK US Won’t Fight States on Marijuana Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Department of Justice would not seek a legal challenge at the federal level to laws legalizing marijuana in two states, CNN reported. . Sen. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, welcomed the Justice Department decision not to sue to stop the states of Colorado and Washington from allowing the recreational use of marijuana, APreported. LINK The Black Budget America spends $52.6 billion on its intelligence agencies, according to "the black budget," a secret fiscal framework obtained by The Washington Post. Despite the vast outlays, intelligence agencies reported having critical blind spots in intelligence throughout the world. LINK Snowden National security officials told NBC News that Edward Snowden was able to access thousands of high-clearance files by impersonating the user profiles of ranking security officials. Snowden downloaded a reported 20,000 documents before escaping to Hong Kong. “The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,” said one former intelligence official. LINK IRS to Recognize Gay Marriages Legally married same-sex couples will now be recognized for federal tax purposes, The New York Times reported. In the wake of a June court decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, the Treasury Department announced Thursday that joint income tax returns would be made available to same-sex couples who marry in any of the thirteen states that allow gay marriage. LINK Obama Signs Order on Guns Four months after a failed drive for additional gun legislation, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday curbing the import of military surplus weapons, The Associated Press reported. The new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons be reimported into the United States after they are sold or donated to allied nations. LINK Vermont FEMA to Rebuild State Office The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced alongside Sen. Patrick Leahy and Gov. Peter Shumlin Thursday plans to provide $53 million for the rebuilding of the Vermont state office complex in Waterbury that was damaged by Tropical Storm Irene, The Associated Press reported. 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