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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" bill has the support of a third of the Senate Democratic caucus, including potential 2020 presidential hopefuls like New York's Kirstin Gillibrand and Kamala Harris of California. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" bill has the support of a third of the Senate Democratic caucus, including potential 2020 presidential hopefuls like New York's Kirstin Gillibrand and Kamala Harris of California.
Opinion: For some Americans, Canadian health care is a source of envy. But the 'Medicare for All' plan shows that our system could use a shake-up, too Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017.
"Far too often, American intervention and the use of American military power has produced unintended consequences which have caused incalculable harm," the senator warned. "A heavy-handed military approach, with little transparency or accountability, doesn't enhance our security.
It was never exactly a shock that George Clooney - a lifelong Democrat, and about as Hollywood as they come - would endorse Hillary Clinton for president. But it wasn't a given, either.
The two Republican senators leading the party's last ditch bid to repeal Obamacare are about to launch an effort to save their reeling bill in a prime-time debate on CNN. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy face off against Democrats Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 9 p.m. ET, with their measure appearing all-but-doomed after a third Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, came out against it.
Democrats have no intention of doing anything that would "substantially change" Obamacare, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday. He described Obamacare as a "placeholder" for the eventual move to single-payer health care, which Sen. Bernie Sanders and other liberals are plugging.
Just a day after giving a major foreign policy speech in Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a speech on Medicare for All at the annual convention for the CNA/NNOC in San Francisco. There's a lot of tsuris all over the place over the fact that Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar will be putting on a show-pony debate next week on CNN with the Clueless Twins, Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, on the subject of healthcare.
In The Intercept's September 22 interview with Vermont's Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, the man they call "the most popular politician in the United States by a country mile," he appears to confirm the broad criticism of his grasp on foreign policy, namely that he suffers from a foreign policy deficit. As Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, put it: "It's not the subject he gravitates to, that's fair to say."
It is always satisfying to prove your doubters wrong and, in the case of Jeremy Corbyn , the left-wing leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, there were an awful lot of them. Written off as a hapless loser 12 months ago at his last party conference, Mr. Corbyn can expect a triumphant reception at this year's event , which was to begin on Sunday.
A still frame from a video tweeted by @Cali_Funk1 appears to show a police officer shooting a man in Huntington Beach. A still frame from a video tweeted by @Cali_Funk1 appears to show a police officer shooting a man in Huntington Beach.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., voices her support for Sen. Bernie Sanders' latest version of his plan to expand Medicare to cover all Americans. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., voices her support for Sen. Bernie Sanders' latest version of his plan to expand Medicare to cover all Americans.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, who spoke about foreign policy at Westminster College's Green Lecture on Thursday, reaches out to shake a hand at a private reception at the National Churchill Museum. Sen. Bernie Sanders didn't disappoint his supporters during a Thursday visit to Fulton to deliver the 58th Green Lecture at Westminster College.
This week, Senate Republicans breathed new life into what seemed like a lost battle since the end of summer: the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Without the ACA and its protections for those with preexisting conditions, millions of disabled, elderly, sick and low-income Americans would lose insurance and, according to some estimates, thousands could die as a result.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will use a major foreign policy address Thursday to set out his view of how politicians on the left should discuss the U.S role in the world and why voters at home should pay close attention to America's actions abroad. Even as the popular lawmaker built a national reputation and attracted millions of fans during his unsuccessful candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, he frequently faced criticism for talking too little about how he would tackle global affairs as president.
After a two-week vacation, I'm finding the need just to catch up on what's happening on the national scene in terms of our plan for national health care. So, I'll be taking a look at a new push from the right to repeal Obamacare, the Cassidy-Graham Plan; last week's proposal from the left, a Medicare for All bill sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders; and a more centrist attempt by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, to find a bipartisan solution For as little as 27 cents a day, you can have complete access to all the local news, photos and video content from North Central Washington's primary news source.
Political impressions have been part of comedian James Adomian's act for years, but he acknowledges that his latest hit has been received in a different way. "Sebastian Gorka is weird, because a lot of people don't know who he is, but the people who do know who he is are obsessed with him," Adomian told Business Insider.
How much government should be involved in the lives of Americans is an ongoing and evolving debate, as "progressives" such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seem to believe that there is basically nothing that big brother shouldn't provide for its citizens. The left has completely lost the idea of personal responsibility, and its definition of safety-net programs has expanded to a list of entitlements that grows unchecked as the years go by.
"The ECHO" is a publication of The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management . This edition covers political activity on Twitter in the United States from September 6-13.