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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/120314 | News December 3 | 2014-12-03 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News December 3 Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Senator Sanders Robin Hood in Reverse Sen. Bernie Sanders told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz on Tuesday that he would oppose a deal that would permanently extend tax breaks for big corporations without extending benefits for working families. “This is just another example of the Republicans having their priorities exactly wrong,” Sanders said. “We take from the poor and we give to the rich – that is the Republican philosophy.” VIDEO Agenda for America Americans must choose between policies that brought a 40-year decline of the middle class and a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all, Sen. Sanders wrote for Daily Kos. Sanders “is giving everyone a pretty good idea of what his major campaign issues would be if he does seek the White House,” according to a Brattleboro Reformer editorial. Wonkette called the plan "so crazy it just might work." LINK, LINK, LINK Treasury Nominee More than 100,000 progressive voters are urging the Senate to reject President Barack Obama's choice of Antonio Weiss, a former Wall Street banker, to fill a key Treasury Department post. Sen. Sanders said he will vote against Weiss, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post and Politico reported. Bloomberg said Weiss won the backing of Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Republican who will chair the Senate Finance Committee. LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK Senate Approves Ambassadors The Senate approved President Oabam's nominees to be U.S. ambassador to Argentina and Hungary. Sen. Sanders voted for both, National Review Online reported. LINK Postal Service Cuts A bipartisan group of senators joined Sen. Sanders in calling for a delay in next year's scheduled closings of 82 Postal Service mail processing centers, the News Tribune of Jefferson City, Missouri, and Wheeler News Service of Wisconsin reported. LINK, LINK FairPoint Investigation Some 100 emergency 911 calls did not go through during a six-hour outage of FairPoint Communications services in Vermont last Friday, VTDigger said. More than 1,700 union members are on strike against FairPoint. “The best way for FairPoint to improve its customer service right now is to agree to a contract that is fair to the workers so they can return to their jobs and provide quality service for Vermonters,” said Sen. Sanders. He suggested the issues are related to a 42-day strike by FairPoint workers and urged the company to return to the bargaining table and work out a deal, the Bennington Banner reported. LINK World Iran Bombs ISIS in Iraq Iranian officials have reportedly sent in F-4 Phantom fighter jets to bomb ISIS targets in Iraq’s Diyala province, according to a U.S. defense official. The strikes weren’t coordinated with the U.S. effort to quash the Islamist militants, The Guardian reported. LINK Iraqi Kurds In a far-reaching deal that helps reunite Iraq in the face of a bitter war with Islamic extremists, the central government agreed on Tuesday to a long-term pact with the autonomous Kurdish region to share the country’s oil wealth and military resources, The New York Times reported. LINK Lebanon Detains Islamis State Leader's Family Lebanese authorities detained a woman and young boy believed to be the wife and son of the reclusive Islamic State group leader, senior Lebanese officials told The Associated Press. LINK National Republicans Divided Congressional Republicans, who remain deeply divided over how to respond to President Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. The latest evidence came Tuesday as House Speaker John A. Boehner unveiled plans to avoid another government shutdown while also allowing furious Republicans a chance to publicly repudiate Obama for acting on his own, The Washington Post reported. LINK Defense Nominee President Obama has settled on Ashton B. Carter to be the next defense secretary, senior administration officials said on Tuesday, but is not prepared to announce the move because the White House has not completed its vetting of him, The New York Times reported. LINK Renewed Push for Military Sexual Assaults Bill Several senators on Tuesday pushed for Congress to take a second look at strengthening protections for victims of sexual assault in the military, saying previous reforms had not reversed the rising rates of assaults, The New York Times reported. LINK McConnell: Revisit Health Policy Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who will lead the chamber starting in January, told Reuters that if the Supreme Court strikes down a subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act next year, the Senate could revisit "very large comprehensive" health care reform under his new majority. LINK Vermont Single Payer Push Health reform advocates say November's election results should not stop the state from pursuing single-payer health care. Groups like the state's teachers union and state employees association laid out their arguments at a news conference Tuesday morning, WCAX-TV reported. LINK Burlington Studies Fossil Fuel Divestment Burlington will study the possibility of divesting city funds, including pension investments, from major fossil fuel companies in an effort to respond to climate change, the Burlington Free Press reported. LINK Heating Prices Down The price of heating fuel is dropping across New England, providing a reprieve to the part of the country that is the most dependent on home heating oil, The Associated Press said. LINK Leahy Food Grant A $100,000 federal grant is being used to promote efforts in Vermont to ensure food from local farms is served in the state's schools. Sen. Patrick Leahy says a partnership of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont and Shelburne Farms received the grant Tuesday to support farm-to-school initiatives across the Green Mountain State, AP reported. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |