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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/110315 | News November 3 | 2015-11-03 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News November 3 Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Senator Sanders Keystone PipelineThe company that hopes to build the Keystone XL pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast asked the Obama administration Monday to delay its review of the proposal. Sen. Sanders has lond opposed the project, the Los Angeles Times, Vox and The Guardian reported. LINK, LINK, LINK MedicaidIn May, Sen. Sanders and Representative Elijah Cummings re-introduced legislation to expand Medicaid's drug rebate. It went nowhere until now.Under the bipartisan budget deal passed last week, a Medicaid drug rebate requirement would be expanded to generic drugs,Voxreported. LINK Capital PunishmentLast week on the Senate floor, Sen. Sanders proposed eliminating the death penalty. It is not a popular point of view. In its most recent polling, Gallup found that 37 percent of Americans opposed the death penalty, compared to 61 percent who supported it. What's interesting is that support for the death penalty rose as crime rose -- but as crime has fallen, support for the death penalty hasn't fallen as much, The Washington Post reported. LINK Trick-or-TreatingSen. Sanderswent trick-or-treating with three of his grandchildren in a neighborhood in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Saturday following his campaign events in the area,ABC News,The Washington PostandReutersreported. All dressed up and ready to go in their Halloween costumes, the children had joined their grandfather earlier in the day, waving to supporters onstage during a town hall meeting.LINK,LINK,VIDEO World Syria After abandoning its last effort to train and arm Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, the Obama administration has turned to a newly announced alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, to beat the jihadists in northern Syria. But 10 days of interviews and front-line visits across northern Syria with many of the forces in the alliance made clear that so far it exists in name only, and that the political and logistical challenges it faces are daunting, The New York Times reported. LINK National Transgender Rights Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates on a girls sports team to change and shower in the girls locker room without restrictions, The New York Times reported. LINK Keystone Pipeline The company seeking to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline asked the Obama administration on Monday to suspend its review of the project, potentially bringing an abrupt halt to the politically charged debate over a proposal that had become part of a broader fight over President Obamas environmental policies, The New York Times reported. LINK Vermont VT Health Connect Gov. Peter Shumlins administration is recommending that the statemaintain the status quo on Vermont Health Connect, rather than scrapping the project in favor of federal technology. Top administration officials wrote Monday that the federal option would present an unacceptable risk of failure. They added that the Vermont Health Connect insurance exchange website, which went live in October 2013, has recovered from earlier problems, Burlington Free Press reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |