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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/102215 | News October 22 | 2015-10-22 | 2015 | 2015-10 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News October 22 Thursday, October 22, 2015 Tuition-Free College It is time to build on the progressive movement of the past and make public colleges and universities tuition-free in the United States a development that will be the driver of a new era of American prosperity. We will have a stronger economy and a stronger democracy when all young people with the ambition and the talent can reach their full potential, regardless of their circumstances at birth, Sen. Sanders wrote in The Washington Post. LINK Exxon Sanders joined MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes about his call for the Justice Department to investigate whether ExxonMobil broke any laws by trying to sow doubt about climate change. I happen to believe, obviously, that climate change is real and its one of the great planetary crises we face, he said. But when you have people like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil today spending huge amounts of money trying to deny that reality, it slows up the world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis. This is serious stuff. The letter cites an ongoing investigative series by InsideClimate News, which has revealed that Exxon scientists conducted rigorous climate research from the late-1970s to mid-1980s and warned top company executives about how global warming posed a threat to Exxon's core business, VICE News, Mother Jones and PolicyMic reported. VIDEO, VIDEO, LINK, LINK, LINK Worker's CompensationTen prominent Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Sanders are urging the U.S. secretary of labor to come up with a plan to ensure that state workers compensation programs are properly caring for injured workers, ProPublica and NPR reported. The lawmakers letter, sent Tuesday, was prompted by an investigation byProPublicaandNPR, which found that more than 30 states have cut benefits to injured workers, created daunting hurdles to getting medical care or made it more difficult for workers with certain injuries and illnesses to qualify.LINK,LINK Kimmel Sanders said Wednesday that he is open to the legalization of marijuana during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC, The Washington Post reported. We have more people in jail today than any other country on earth, Sanders told Kimmel. We have large numbers of lives that have been destroyed because of this war on drugs, and because people were caught smoking marijuana and so forth. I think we have got to end the war on drugs. Sanders also pushed for his plan to make public colleges and universities free, saying, Everybody knows that a college degree today is more or less the equivalent to what a high school degree was 50 years ago. LINK,VIDEO Bernanke Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Fusions Jorge Ramos that he found finds some common ground with Sanders when it comes to distribution of wealth, Fusion reported. Over the last forty years or so weve seen wages and wealth becoming more unequally distributed, he told Ramos. And its an important problem, one we need to address. LINK, VIDEO Prison Phone Rates The Obama administration wants to cap the rates and fees companies charge for prison phone service, The Huffington Post reported. Phone companies paid prisons $460 million in commissions in 2013 payments that Sens. Cory Booker and Sanders and 14 other Democrats said last Thursday amounted to kickbacks to win contracts. LINK Doc Brown To mark Back to the Future Day, Sanders posted a photo of himself with Christopher Lloyd, the actor who played Doc Brown in the iconic movie series, TIME Magazine, The Hill and Entertainment Weekly reported. reported. Sanders is a guest on Wednesday nights Jimmy Kimmel Live show, which is spending the week filming from Kimmels hometown of Brooklyn. Kimmels other advertised guest for Wednesdays Back to the Future segmentOctober 21, 2015will be star Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly in the iconic trilogy that also co-starred Lloyd. LINK, LINK, LINK Column: Means-Testing Entitlements Sanders supports sufficient tax increases on the wealthy to cover the cost of universal free tuition, and then some. By raising taxes on investment income, financial transactions and the overall income of the richest Americans, as Sanders has advocated, the programs that Sanders champions would be fully paid for. Say what you will about Senator Socialist, hes no budget buster, Harold Meyerson wrote in The Washington Post. LINK World Hottest Year on RecordPlanet Earth is on a high temperature record-breaking tear this year, which shows no sign of relenting. 2015 is, by far, on track to become the warmest year in recorded history,The Washington Postreported. NOAA reports today the globally-averaged temperature for September 2015 was the warmest of all previous Septembers on record, dating back to 1880, and by an unprecedented margin of 0.19 degrees.LINK Trudeau A day after defeating Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Prime Minister-designate Trudeau told President Obama by phone that he would make good on a campaign promise to withdraw Canadas jets from the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, The Washington Post reported. Canada has committed a half-dozen fighter planes, a fraction of the American air power in the fight. LINK National Heroin EpidemicFaced with a nationwide epidemic of heroin and prescription drug abuse, the Obama administration announced Wednesday it will take steps to increase access to drug treatment and the training of doctors who prescribe opiate painkillers,The Washington Postreported. The administration hopes to double the number of doctors who can prescribe buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opiate addiction, to 60,000 from 30,000 over the next three years. More than 40 medical provider groups have committed to training more than a half million doctors, dentists and others on the safe prescription of opiate medications.LINK Speaker Ryan Hard-line conservatives cleared a path Wednesday for Rep. Paul Ryan to become House speaker when some of his most disgruntled fellow Republicans signaled that they would support his bid for the top job, The Washington Post. The decision to back Ryan by the House Freedom Caucus, a group of nearly 40 lawmakers that has risen in power and stature since its founding this year, came after the Ways and Means Committee chairman spent much of his day courting its support. LINK Vermont UnemploymentVermonts unemployment rose by .1 percent in September, to 3.7 percent,Vermont Public Radioreported. Of the states 17 labor markets, Derby had the highest unemployment rate at 5.5 percent, while the lowest was 3.2 percent in Burlington-South Burlington. Unlike the statewide rate, the local rates are not adjusted to compensate for seasonal changes in employment.LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |