The Baseline Scenario (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
As legislation on restructuring the banking industry moves forward, attention on Capitol Hill is increasingly drawn to the issue of bank size. Should our biggest banks be made smaller? Senator Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont, introduced the “Too Big To Fail Is Too Big to Exist” bill in early November; this helped focus attention. Since [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
angry tapir writes "Two US senators have asked President Barack Obama's administration to allow the public to review and comment on a controversial international copyright treaty being negotiated largely in secret. The public has a right to know what's being negotiated in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Senators Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and Bernard Sanders, a Vermont Independent,...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings Here's a second Q&A from the Senate Democratic Policy Committee's Citizens Forum . I posted one on affordability yesterday. Geoffrey Pettingill (Hamburg, MI): Why is the public option better than private insurance? Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT): The public option is there to do its best to provide health care to people.
Right Coast (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Sen. Barbara Boxer is trying to pull a fast one! How shocking. I mean they rammed the health care bill through the house with back room deals, ultra high pressure, and keeping the congress in the chamber until they voted yes. Does this suprise you at all? Boxer wants to force her outrageous Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade energy rationing and taxing scheme through the Senate Environment and Public Workers...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont has introduced legislation that would force the Treasury Department to break up all financial institutions whose failure could cause a major disruption to the nation's financial system.
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
He's apparently still planning to introduce both a full single payer bill in the Senate, a la Anthony Weiner's substitution move last I heard, and he's planning to introduce a Kucinich-style states' rights single payer amendment too. By DANIEL BARLOW Times-Argus (Vt.) Oct. 29, 2009 MONTPELIER — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when — for the first time ever...
The Nookular Option (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when — for the first time ever — he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote. As a compromise on a public-option plan that would allow states to opt out gains steam in the U.S. Senate, Sanders, a Vermont independent, continues to focus his attention on a single-payer...
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
by Daniel Barlow MONTPELIER - U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when - for the first time ever - he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote. As a compromise on a public-option plan that would allow states to opt out gains steam in the U.S. Senate, Sanders, a Vermont independent, continues to focus his attention...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Last July I gave a Chutzpah of the Week award to "57 Democrats in the House of Representatives have decided to bare their progressive teeth with a letter sent to their supposed leaders indicating their intention to oppose any compromise that will ultimately undermine the course of [health care] reform." I learned about the grounds for this award through the good graces of John Nichols and...
Right Klik (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Thirty leftist Senators make another push for a public option...here's their letter: Dear Majority Leader Reid: We have spent the better part of this year fighting for health reform that would provide insurance access and continuity to every American in a fiscally responsible manner. We are concerned that – absent a competitive and continuous public insurance option – health reform legislation...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Jason Rosenbaum has the news on that secret letter I was talking about yesterday that Senate Democrats were pushing, demanding that Harry Reid include a public option in the bill that comes to the floor. We now have the letter , and it calls for a "robust, Medicare-like" public option, which is right where the House Progressives have drawn the line. The letter has 30 signatures: Sherrod Brown...
Notes on Social Security Reform (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – PENSIONS & RETIREMENT Sept. 29, 2009 – 12:56 p.m. Idea of $250 Payment to Seniors Gains No Traction With Hoyer By David Clarke, CQ Staff House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer on Tuesday declined to throw his support behind providing senior citizens with a one-time payment of $250 to make up for the expected lack of a cost-of-living boost for Social Security recipients...
Brian McLaren (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
You can if one of these people is your senator: Barbara Boxer (CA) Max Baucus (MT) Thomas R. Carper (DE) Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ) Benjamin L. Cardin (MD) Bernard Sanders (VT) Amy Klobuchar (MN) Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Tom Udall (NM)...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Writing about health care policy is a really daunting challenge. To be really good at it, you have to really get down in the weeds. You have to understand a lot about the budget. You need to understand the insurance industry. You have to familiarize yourself with all the various programs that the government already offers and understand who is being served and excluded in those programs. It's like...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Editorial: Defund ACORN Now What could possibly be more revolting than a federally funded organization using a stream of tax dollars to promote voter fraud and encourage prostitution? Perhaps the seven U.S. Senators voting to keep that organization fully funded with those tax dollars. In the aftermath of the highly publicized disclosure of multiple videos revealing ACORN workers offering assistance...
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