Socialist senator to push Congress from left

[oberliner]

BURLINGTON, Vermont (Reuters) - From pressing for hearings on
Iraq to probing no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton Co., America's first socialist senator aims to give Congress a hard tilt to the left.

Bernie Sanders, a 16-year veteran of the House of Representatives who swept 65 percent of the vote in Vermont running as an independent in the November 7 elections, says Congress owes voters an exhaustive probe into the White House.

"It is time to ask some hard questions. Why did we go into Iraq and what did the president know and when did he know it," Sanders said in an interview in his Burlington office on a hillside above Lake Champlain near Canada's border.

"The war in Iraq has been an absolute disaster and it's absolutely imperative that America never again goes that route. That's why we have to ask those questions," he said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061130/pl_nm/usa_politics_sanders_dc

[bigmonkey]

1. As a former Vermonter, I say

Bernie!!!