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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/102315 | News October 23 | 2015-10-23 | 2015 | 2015-10 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News October 23 Friday, October 23, 2015 Senator Sanders Puerto Rican Debt CrisisSen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday that Wall Street financiers who loaned money to Puerto Rico may "have to take a haircut" on their returns from the fiscally troubled island. "The lenders are not going to get 100% of their dollars back. They're going to have to take a haircut -- probably a pretty significant haircut," the Vermont independent senator toldCNNen Espanol's Juan Carlos Lopez on "DirectoUSA." Why should they get 100 percent of their investment when they are paying 30 to 70 percent for their bonds? Sanders said in a hearing on Puerto Rico's crisis according toThe New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Postand NPRs All Things Considered.LINK,LINK,LINK, LINK,VIDEO, AUDIO The Time for Real Change"The American people understand that our current economic system is rigged, and that our campaign finance system is corrupt. They know that while the very rich get much richer, millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages, and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth," Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote forConcord Monitor. "Now is the time for bold action to rebuild our disappearing middle class. Now is the time to protect the most vulnerable members of our society the elderly, the disabled and the children."LINK Prison Phone CallsThe Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to slash what it called excessive rates and egregious fees that families have to pay to call their relatives in prison. Currently, calls to inmates can cost as much as$14 a minute. The FCC decision comes a week after Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and 15 other Democrats wrote a letter to the agencys chairman Thomas Wheeler in support of his reform effort. The lawmakers were critical of the existing system, which they said has profited from charging inmates unreasonably high call rates,MSNBCreported.LINK Consistency John Dillon, news director at Vermont Public Radio, has covered Sen. Sanders for more than 25 years and says the candidate has focused on economic inequality from his earliest campaigns, Iowa Public Radio reported. Even when he was running as a third party candidate for U.S. senator and governor in the state of Vermont back in the 70s, he talked about these issues that hes talking about today. LINK MarijuanaSen. Sanders suggested on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he is open to supporting the legalization of marijuana,The Hill,MSNBC,Rolling Stone,The WeekandNational Journalreported. "We have large numbers of lives who have been destroyed because of this war on drugs," he stated. "I think we have got to end the war on drugs. I am not unfavorably disposed to moving toward the legalization of marijuana," Sanders said.LINK,LINK,LINK,LINK,LINK Free Public College Tuition Sen. Sanders promised on Thursday to revolutionize higher education with universal free public college tuition, because it is the right thing to do,The Guardianreported. Sanders argued on Thursday that an education should be available to all regardless of anyones station both as the best chance for peoples personal fulfillment and also to give the US the best educated workforce in the world.LINK Climate ChangeSen. Sanders said late Wednesday that Republicans think climate change isn't real because of the Koch brothers and other big energy interests,The Hillreported. When you have people like the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil today spending huge amounts of money trying to deny that reality, it slows up the entire world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis, Sanders said. "This is serious stuff."LINK Column: Skyrocketing Drug Prices" For most Americans, the out-of-pocket prices that we must pay for essential prescription drugs, already too high, are increasing far too rapidly for our family budgets to sustain. The Congress has the ability to moderate these price spikes but only a sustained national outcry from the American people will bring about reform," Rep. Elijah Cummings wrote inAfro."For some time now, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and I have been investigating the skyrocketing prices for prescription drugs. We have received evidence of repeated drug price increases with no apparent justification and with no evident link to any increase in the cost of manufacturing these drugs."LINK National Obama Defends Black Lives MatterPresident Obama said Thursday that black Americans were not simply imagining concerns that they are often treated more harshly and less fairly by police officers than are whites, The New York Times reported. I think the reason the organizers used the phrase black lives matter was not because they were suggesting that nobody elses lives matter, Mr. Obama said. Rather, what they were suggesting was that there is a specific problem that is happening in the African-American community that is not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that weve got to address. LINK Obama Vetoes Defense BillPresident Obama exercised his veto power Thursday for just the fifth time in his presidency, rejecting a defense authorization bill because of the way it would sidestep budget limitations for the military and because it would restrict the transfer of detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, The Washington Post reported. LINK College ShootingOne person was killed and two others were wounded by gunfire on the campus of Tennessee State University in Nashville late on Thursday, police said. The incidents come amid a string of gun violence at or near several U.S. schools in October, including deadly incidents on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and adjacent to Texas Southern University in Houston, Reuters reported. LINK Vermont Woman Raped in CourthouseA woman was raped in a bathroom of Burlington's criminalcourthouse, a building secured by metal detectors and armed guards, according to charges laid out in court papers. Police are seeking the suspect, who remains at large, Burlington Free Press reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |