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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=E5F0A035-C2E9-4EDF-BC7F-14053601717C | : News September 13 | 2013-09-13 | 2013 | 2013-09 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News September 13 Friday, September 13, 2013 Senator Sanders Dental Crisis Sen. Sanders chaired a Senate hearing on Thursday to call attention to the high cost of dental care and ways to improve access to oral health care for all Americans. The Senate panel learned that more than 47 million Americans live in places where adequate dental care is difficult to access and 130 million do not have dental insurance, reported WPTZ-TV and other NBC News affiliates, KWTC-TV in Oklahoma City, Okla., and other CBS News affiliates, CBS Radio, KNX-AM all-news radio in Los Angeles, The Associated Press, Washington Times, Congressional Quarterly and others. VIDEO,VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO, AUDIO, AUDIO, LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK The American People Have Spoken "With a loud and clear voice the overwhelming majority of the American people, across the political spectrum, are saying no to another war in the Middle East," Sen. Sanders wrote for The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Green Mountain Daily. Building on that momentum, Sanders said Americans must demand action on important domestic issues. "Now is the time to use that same energy and passion to save the middle class," he wrote. LINK, LINK, LINK Where’s Obama on Jobs? President Obama just waged an unprecedented campaign to sell Americans on the need to go to war. Some in Congress want him to bring the same focus to jobs and other domestic priorities. “I raised this issue to the president the other day,” Sen. Sanders told Yahoo News. “It’s one thing to give a speech which most people know really is not going to translate into terribly strong action,” Sanders said. “Intensity is the key issue. Is he prepared to fight?” Sanders declined to describe Obama’s response, but a congressional aide who does not work for Sanders said the exchange was a bit combative, with the senator asking, in effect, “Why the hell aren’t we talking about jobs?” LINK Syria Americans, from both red states and blue states, are strongly opposed to a war in Syria and are telling their members of Congress, The Huffington Post reported. Sen. Sanders said that "95 percent of my constituents have indicated to me in emails and phone calls that they do not want to see the United States getting involved in a bloody and complicated civil war in Syria - and that certainly has some influence on me." LINK Lame Duck If President Barack Obama doesn't want to spend the rest of his term as a lame duck, he is going to have to address the obstructionism of Republicans in Congress, Sen. Sanders told Ed Schultz in an interview cited by The Raw Story. LINK Irene Recovery Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation and the Springfield Regional Development Corporation have received an additional $500,000 in funding for a program that has already provided grants to over 30 area businesses struggling from the effects of Tropical Storm Irene. Sens. Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Rep, Peter Welch fought to include $400 million in disaster funding in the federal budget, the Brattleboro Reformer reported. LINK Veterans Sen. Sanders chaired a joint hearing on veterans’ issues this week to receive testimony from advocacy groups, The American Legion reported. Sanders defended the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that the VA "is making progress in reducing the disability claims backlog." Sanders lauded the VA for its implementation of cutting edge health care such as alternative medicine and telehealth systems. LIN Missile Defense Site The Vermont National Guard's Camp Ethan Allen has been selected by the Department of Defense as a finalist for a potential East Coast missile defense site, Sen. Sanders, joined by Sen. Leahy and Rep. Welch, opposed the selection. "My first impression is that this is a very bad idea and, for a wide variety of reasons, I do not believe that it will ever happen," said Sen. Sanders according to WCAX-TV, WPTZ-TV, ABC22, VPR, Vermont Press Bureau, VTDigger and Seven Days. Sen. Charles Schumer hoped the missile defense site will be located in New York to create jobs. LINK, LINK, LINK, VIDEO, VIDEO, AUDIO,LINK, LINK, LINK Space Exiting the Solar System In a first for mankind, a NASA-built spacecraft, the Voyager 1, has exited the solar system. “This is historic stuff, a bit like the first exploration of Earth, and we had to look at the data very, very carefully,” Edward C. Stone, 77, NASA’s top Voyager expert, told The New York Times. LINK World US-Russian Talks Begin Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Geneva for a second day of diplomacy, linked the removal of chemical weapons from Syria to prospects for a broader peace conference, The Associated Press reported. Russian diplomats pushed for the United States to take military threats off of the table. LINK U.S.-Born Jihadist Killed in Somalia Omar Hammami, a United States-born jihadist living in Somalia, has been killed my fellow militants TIME has learned. Hammami was on the United States' most-wanted list and the State Department had offered a $5 million reward for his capture. LINK State of Emergency in Egypt American diplomats asked Egyptian authorities Thursday to lift a state of emergency in force since August, AFP News reported. "The interim government and military must ensure due process and that any citizens arrested by police or military are referred only to civilian courts," said a spokesman for the State Department. LINK National Five Years After Financial Crisis, Americans Don’t Like Wall Street Americans continue to overwhelmingly dislike and distrust Wall Street five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing financial crisis, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Forty two percent said they have a negative view of the New York financial institutions while just 14 percent have a favorable opinion. LINK Jobless Claims Jobless claims dropped last week to an all-time low since April 2006, reportedBloomberg. However, the decrease in filings was not due to an improvement in the job market, but rather due to computer network issues in two states that caused those unemployment agencies to underreport for the month. LINK Twitter IPO Twitter is getting ready to file for an initial public offering, the company tweeted on Thursday. According to CBS News, the company has been working to boost ad revenue and advertising products. CEO Dick Costolo said in January that he was cautious about filing an IPO because he didn't want Twitter to be a public company that must bend to shareholders' wishes. LINK Vermont Burlington City Council The Burlington City Council will be offering extended public comment time at three upcoming meetings addressing the livable wage ordinance, F-35s and gun-related city charter changes, reported the Burlington Free Press. LINK Media Shield Law The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Leahy, on Thursday approved a federal media shield law that would protect journalists who use confidential sources to report on the actions of government agencies, says The Associated Press. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |