We’ll talk with Sen. Sanders about the economic bailout issues that the Senate is dealing with, and we’ll learn how he see the Obama administration shaping up. Also on the program, news analysis with VPR’s John Dillon and we listen back to some of the voices in the week’s news.
Senator Bernie Sanders will join his colleagues later today to vote on a Senate version of an economic bail out package. Before catching a plane to Washington, he spoke with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about the package.
Senator Patrick Leahy says he won’t vote for the bill unless it includes new
protections for taxpayers and some new oversight of the financial
industry.
Bernie Sanders says he wants the wealthiest Americans to pay for the federal bailout of the financial industry; a hard frost hit many parts of the region this morning, a reminder that winter driving is fast approaching; more Vermonters are out of work; Vermont Yankee has found more problems with the nuclear power plant’s cooling towers.
Census Bureau says median household income in VT fell 4.7% in the
middle part of the decade; Senator Bernie Sanders is at the Democratic
National Convention; more…
Senator Bernie Sanders is using his role as an independent to gather
support for Democrat Barack Obama. Sanders joins us from the Democratic
convention in Denver to look at the role of independent voters and
Sanders’ own interest in working closely with Democrats.
Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Key Vermont
lawmakers and Douglas administration officials today are set to announce a
series of steps designed to avert a crisis due to the high cost of heating fuel
for next winter;
Senator Bernie Sanders
is vowing to continue fighting for increased federal home heating assistance
despite a setback in the Senate;
High
gas prices mean the state and federal governments are collecting less money in
transportation taxes…
Senators Patrick
Leahy and Bernie Sanders, and New Hampshire’s John Sununu and Judd Gregg were on the winning side
Saturday as the Senate approved a plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure
and to save mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Billions in new federal heating oil assistance faces a test vote in the US
Senate this weekend. Money for Vermont and other cold weather states is at stake.