Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Elected Mayor of Burlington, Vt., by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York. Read more at his website. Follow him on Twitter: @SenSanders or @BernieSanders
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Views Tuesday, January 01, 2019 A Bold, Progressive Agenda for a Happier and Healthier New Year The following is a New Year's Day email message sent to supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on January 1, 2019. Dear friends, Jane and I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very healthy and happy new year. It goes without saying that 2019 will be a pivotal and momentous time... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 23, 2018 America's Wealthiest Family Owns Walmart. They Can Afford to Pay Workers $15 an Hour. The major economic crisis facing this country is that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, tens of millions of Americans are working for wages that are so low that they are barely surviving . All over this country, people are forced to work two or three jobs to support their families... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 11, 2018 Trump Lies About 'Medicare for All' and He's Made Health Care Worse The American people have a very clear choice in the upcoming elections. On one side is Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress, who made throwing 32 million Americans off of health insurance their number one priority in Washington. On the other side is my "Medicare for All" plan... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 13, 2018 A New Authoritarian Axis Demands an International Progressive Front T here is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. Nothing less than the future of the planet – economically, socially and environmentally – is at stake. At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 99%, we are seeing... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 06, 2018 It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare Year after year, decade after decade, Republicans in Washington have lectured the American people about the need for “welfare reform.” In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan railed against a fictitious “welfare queen” driving a Cadillac. Just a few years ago, Republicans turned their attention to a young... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 16, 2018 Medicare for All's Time Has Come Let's be clear. The American people are increasingly tired of a healthcare system that works for Wall Street investors, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry—but ignores their needs. They want real change, and poll after poll shows that they want to move toward a Medicare-for-all,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 01, 2018 Why Congress Must Vote on the US Role in Yemen In Yemen, a child under the age of five dies of preventable causes every 10 minutes . That is just one startling fact from a country that has been torn by war for nearly three years. More than 10,000 civilians have died and over 40,000 have been wounded in this war. Fifteen million people can’t... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 15, 2018 The Great Moral Issue of Our Time Let me begin by congratulating Chloe Kim, a first-generation American, who won a gold medal for the United States in the women’s halfpipe snowboarding event this week. Her father, Jong Jin Kim, emigrated from South Korea to the United States in 1982, became a dishwasher at a fast food restaurant... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 29, 2018 What Trump Will Not Be Talking About in His State of the Union Tuesday night is Trump's State of the Union speech. Nobody knows exactly what he will be discussing, but I'm absolutely certain what he will NOT be talking about. He will surely not be apologizing for the many lies he told American voters: how he promised to defend the interests of working people,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 09, 2018 It’s on Republicans to Stop a Shutdown I do not know why President Trump and the Republican Party — which controls the White House, the Senate and the House — are so willing to shut down the government. Maybe they think it will be good for them politically. Maybe they believe the chaos created by a government shutdown would be a welcome... Read more |