MONTPELIER, Vt.—U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been appointed chairman of a Senate subcommittee dealing with health and aging issues.
The independent and self-described democratic socialist will chair a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions that also deals with the low-income home energy assistance program, or LIHEAP.
The panel Sanders will chair deals as well with several issues that have been priorities for the first-term senator, including community health centers, home heating assistance, seniors programs, pensions and dental care.
Sanders last year championed the inclusion of $11 billion in new funding for the community health centers as part of health reform legislation.
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