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By: Bob Audette; Brattleboro Reformer   BRATTLEBORO — A health care provider that has clinics in Rockingham, Londonderry and Ludlow hopes to expand into Brattleboro. “There’s not a federally qualified health center in the region of Brattleboro,” said Josh Dufresne, CEO of North Star Health, formerly known as Springfield Medical Care Systems. A federally qualified health center is a health care practice that

By: Asma Khalid, Kelsey Snell, and Maria Liasson; NPR In an interview with NPR, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he stood by his characterization earlier this summer that his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) sabotaged President Biden’s agenda. “I don’t think it’s debatable,” he said, adding that that he felt Manchin had “his own agenda” when negotiating with the administration

By: Lauren Gambino; The Guardian As Democrats celebrate the long-sought passage of Joe Biden’s sweeping health, climate and economic package, Bernie Sanders is not ready to declare victory. Instead, the Vermont senator is sounding the alarm that Congress has failed to meet the moment, with potentially grave consequences for American democracy. “We are living in enormously difficult times,” he said in

By: Kelsey Snell; NPR The House votes Friday to give final congressional approval to a package of climate, health care and tax measures that Democrats have been negotiating for over a year. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The House voted today to give final passage to the Inflation Reduction Act. The roughly $700 billion legislation cleared Congress without a single Republican vote

By: Alexander Ward; Politico FIRST IN NATSEC DAILY –– Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) fears for Brazil’s democracy as it heads into a raucous presidential election in October, and he wants the U.S. Senate to officially stand on the side of voters — regardless of who they choose. Former President LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA leads President JAIR BOLSONARO by about 7 percentage points, according to the latest polls.

By: Paul Heintz, VT Digger In the end, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., voted yes. For a week, as Senate Democrats had cheered the deal they reached with their most conservative member, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to advance elements of their agenda, Sanders criticized it as failing to deliver for those who needed it most.  “This bill turns its back on you,” he