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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/120814 | News December 8 | 2014-12-08 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News December 8 Monday, December 8, 2014 Senator Sanders Primary Care Cliff Primary care programs serving 22 million poor Americans expire at the end of this fiscal year unless Congress finds more funding. But keeping the programs alive could be a tough sell amid a political climate still sour on President Obama's signature health law. "It will precipitate a huge crisis in primary care," said Sen. Bernard Sanders. He has written legislation to keep the funding going, but said no Republicans have signed onto his bill to direct nearly $30 billion to the programs over the next five years. "It's an expensive proposition," he told The Washington Times. LINK Holiday Dinner Area families enjoyed dinner Sunday at the 34th annual Tony Pomerleau Holiday Party at the Hilton in Burlington. Sen. Bernie Sanders started the party for families in need when he was mayor of Burlington, WCAX-TV, WVNY-TV and WFFDF-TV reported. Hundreds of adults and children attended this year’s event at the Burlington Hilton, the Burlington Free Press reported. LINK, LINK, VIDEO, VIDEO, VIDEO Holiday Dinner Sen. Sanders will host a free holiday dinner for seniors this Friday in Bennington. It’s of several holiday dinners throughout Vermont he holds to hear seniors’ concerns and to provide Vermonters with an update from Washington. The free turkey dinner will be catered by Bennington County Meals on Wheels and will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Students from Mount Anthony Union High School will perform holiday music during the event, the Bennington Banner reported. LINK World 1,000 Extra U.S. Soldiers Will Remain in Afghanistan The United States military will keep as many as 1,000 extra troops in Afghanistan through early next year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday, a response to a slower-than-expected force commitment from NATO allies. The revelation came during a trip to Afghanistan by Hagel, who made a point of saying the additional soldiers were not a response to several months of intense Taliban violence, The New York Times reported. LINK Torture Report The Senate Intelligence Committee may release a report this week that amounts to the first public accounting of the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda detainees held in secret facilities in Europe and Asia in the years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. officials who have read the report say it includes disturbing new details about the CIA's use of such techniques as sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation and the simulated drowning process known as waterboarding, CBS News reported. Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report will cause "violence and deaths" abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday. LINK National House-Senate Near Spending Deal House-Senate negotiators neared agreement Sunday on the last pieces of a $1.1 trillion spending bill designed to avert any shutdown this week and put most government agencies on firm footing through next September. Building on a long weekend of talks, the goal was to file the giant measure by late Monday and then push for quick floor action before the current funding runs out Thursday night, Politico reported. LINK Fossil-fuel Lobbyists Oil, gas and coal interests that spent millions to help elect Republicans this year are moving to take advantage of expanded GOP power in Washington and state capitals to thwart Obama administration environmental rules. Industry lobbyists made their pitch in private meetings last week with dozens of state legislators at a summit of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an industry-financed conservative state policy group, according to The Washington Post. LINK The Kochs Eclipse the RNC The Koch brothers and their allies are pumping tens of millions of dollars into a data company that’s developing detailed, state-of-the-art profiles of 250 million Americans, giving the brothers’ political operation all the earmarks of a national party. The move comes as mainstream Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, are trying to reclaim control of the conservative movement from outside groups. The Kochs, however, are continuing to amass all of the campaign tools the Republican National Committee and other party arms use to elect a president. The Koch network also has developed in-house expertise in polling, message-testing, fact-checking, advertising, media buying, dial groups and donor maintenance, Politico reported. LINK Vermont Slow Spending The Shumlin administration is moving to “slow spending” rather than make unilateral budget cuts without legislative approval as officials look to address a budget gap caused by poor state revenues. Administration officials, including Gov. Peter Shumlin, initially said last month they were planning to make $6.7 million in budget cuts immediately as part of a $17 million budget rescission. They argued they had the statutory authority, backed up by an opinion from Attorney General William Sorrell, to make cuts up to 1 percent of the budget. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |