Tag: Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders stumped in North Carolina on Wednesday, the latest sign that his potential 2016 run for the Democratic presidential nomination will follow an unorthodox path. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)

Sen. Bernie Sanders continues his unorthodox 2016 campaign

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 3:40 pm

Antagonizing the Pro-Hamas Vote

Antagonizing the Pro-Hamas Vote

Geoffrey Norman · August 21, 2014 11:33 am

VIDEO: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to help prevent another Ferguson

Lisa Ruhl · August 20, 2014 5:27 pm

Opinion: House-passed VA compromise isn’t a cure-all

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Opinion: House-passed VA compromise isn’t a cure-all

Amber Smith · July 31, 2014 4:05 am

On two important issues, veterans' health and job training, congressional Republicans and Democrats have, with little notice, reached constructive bipartisan agreements. (iStock)

Bipartisanship is alive and well, but not in the Obama White House

Michael Barone · July 30, 2014 8:30 pm

VIDEO: Bernie Sanders and Jeff Miller unveil Veterans Affairs plan

Lisa Ruhl · July 28, 2014 8:19 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., co-authored a $17 billion plan to overhaul the way the nationâs veterans obtain medical care, including a $10 billion provision to privatize services to help shorten long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Lawmakers unveil $17 billion bill to reform Veterans Affairs

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2014 6:06 pm

The chairs of the Veterans Affairs committee have reached a deal on legislation to reform the embattled agency and will introduce the bill this afternoon on Capitol Hill.

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for July 28

Steve Doty · July 28, 2014 11:57 am

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, right, speaks with House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller during a meeting of the Senate-House Veterans Affairs Conference Committee June 24, 2014 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Lawmakers reach accord on Veterans Affairs bill

Susan Ferrechio · July 27, 2014 10:49 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 24, 2014, on the Veterans Administration. The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing new proposals to fix a veterans health care program scandalized by long waits and falsified records covering up the delays. (AP Photo)

House, Senate chairs offer competing bills on VA

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 10:44 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Robert McDonald of Ohio flanked by Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, right, listen during a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearings to examine his nomination to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo)

Sanders pleads for VA reform bill as talks stall

Washington Examiner · July 23, 2014 11:13 pm

Don Parker, right, waits with his father, Harley Parker, center, a World War II veteran, on Tuesday as they wait their turn to speak with someone at a health care crisis center set up at the American Legion Post 1 hall in Phoenix. The FBI revealed on Wednesday that it had opened a criminal investigation into a Department of Veterans Affairs reeling from allegations of falsified records and inappropriate scheduling practices. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Senate passes bill aimed at cutting wait times for VA patients

Sean Lengell · June 11, 2014 11:03 pm