Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Vermont to Require GMO Food Labels: Vermont will likely be the first state in the nation to require food manufacturers to label products containing genetically modified organisms. Minutes after the House voted 114-30 for the bill, Gov. Peter Shumlin said he will sign it into law.
Sen. Sanders, who is pushing for federal food label reforms, congratulated state lawmakers, VTDigger reported. “I am very proud our small state stood up to Monsanto and other multi-national food conglomerates and is taking the lead in a movement to allow the people of our country to know what is in the food that they eat," Sanders said.
Vermont to Require GMO Food Labels: Vermont will likely be the first state in the nation to require food manufacturers to label products containing genetically modified organisms. Minutes after the House voted 114-30 for the bill, Gov. Peter Shumlin said he will sign it into law.
Sen. Sanders, who is pushing for federal food label reforms, congratulated state lawmakers, VTDigger reported. “I am very proud our small state stood up to Monsanto and other multi-national food conglomerates and is taking the lead in a movement to allow the people of our country to know what is in the food that they eat," Sanders said.
An American Agenda: “It is clear to me that the president and Congress
have got to start listening to the American people and acting on their
behalf rather than representing the needs of corporate America and the
rich,” Sen. Sanders wrote in a column published Thursday by the
Philadelphia Daily News, Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald and The (Doylestown,
Pa.) Intelligencer. He said Congress must enact a major jobs program
that invests in our crumbling infrastructure, raise the minimum wage to a
living wage, protect and expand Social Security and address the
planetary crisis of global warming.
Koch Brothers and Their Puppets: Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect right-wing candidates who will enact an agenda that’s good for billionaires but bad for working families in America, Sen. Sanders told Ed Schultz Wednesday on MSNBC. Sanders said the vast majority of Americans disagree with the Kochs, who want more tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “Do you really want to live in a country where a handful of billionaires control our economy and our political life while the middle class disappears?” Sanders asked. “That is the question of our time. We’ve got to stand up and fight back.”
New FCC Rule Undermines Net Neutrality: Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission plan to introduce a new rules that will undermine net neutrality and allow large internet corporations to offer “preferential treatment” to websites who pay them off, The Huffington Post reported. Critics argue that the end of net neutrality could have far-reaching effects on U.S. society by stifling innovation, hindering cash-strapped Internet startups from getting off the ground and widening the gap between the rich and the poor in the quality of Internet connection each get.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/042414
Koch Brothers and Their Puppets: Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect right-wing candidates who will enact an agenda that’s good for billionaires but bad for working families in America, Sen. Sanders told Ed Schultz Wednesday on MSNBC. Sanders said the vast majority of Americans disagree with the Kochs, who want more tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “Do you really want to live in a country where a handful of billionaires control our economy and our political life while the middle class disappears?” Sanders asked. “That is the question of our time. We’ve got to stand up and fight back.”
New FCC Rule Undermines Net Neutrality: Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission plan to introduce a new rules that will undermine net neutrality and allow large internet corporations to offer “preferential treatment” to websites who pay them off, The Huffington Post reported. Critics argue that the end of net neutrality could have far-reaching effects on U.S. society by stifling innovation, hindering cash-strapped Internet startups from getting off the ground and widening the gap between the rich and the poor in the quality of Internet connection each get.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/042414
Sanders
Welcomes Obama Health Care Official to Vermont: Working to make health
care affordable to everyone who needs it, Sen. Bernie Sanders will speak
at a press conference today alongside the senior Obama administration
official...
sanders.senate.gov
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