Sanders Pursues Next Job With Interest in Post He Has Now
Sanders does have this advantage.
http://blogs.rollcall.com/hawkings/sanders-pursues-next-job-interest-post-now/
Sanders Pursues Next Job With Interest in Post He Has Now
By David Hawkings Posted at 5 a.m. Nov. 18
Unlike most of his Republican analogues, Bernard Sanders is overtly trying to harness his senatorial work this fall to the service of his presidential campaign.
........Sanders is using the power of Senate incumbency to advance causes that highlight themes of his national campaign — that the Washington game is rigged to benefit the moneyed heavyweights at the expense of the little guy, and he’s the candidate to turn that balance of power on its head.
.............fresh off a campaign rally in Cleveland Monday afternoon, Sanders was on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee dais Tuesday morning, injecting a note of populist drama into what’s expected to be the relatively straightforward promotion of Robert M. Califf to head the Food and Drug Administration.
“People are dying and not buying the food they need because they have to pay outrageous prices for medicine,” Sanders told .........................
The senator has also used the bully pulpit of the Senate floor on several occasions in the past month to highlight differences with his main rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, mainly to position himself to her left on social issues.
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And two weeks ago, Sanders introduced a bill to end the federal criminalization of marijuana and ...............
On that front, the former secretary of State and senator from New York remains closer to the sentiment of Senate Democrats, not one of whom has endorsed the Sanders legislation. None of the Vermonter’s Senate colleagues has endorsed his presidential campaign, while 33 of the 45 others in the Democratic Caucus are formally backing Clinton. (So are 124 House Democrats, compared with just two in the Sanders camp, Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona.)
Those rosters of supporters underscore a continuing truth about the Sanders campaign: He’s a lifelong political independent who’s running as a Democrat for entirely practical reasons, and all his efforts to use his standing as a congressional insider to promote his personality as an establishment outsider may only carry him so far.
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