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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 28, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 753. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 28, 2022

I have risen today to ask unanimous consent for S. Res. 753, expressing the sense of the Senate on the upcoming election in Brazil. This Sunday, October 2, Brazil will hold its Presidential election. According to many polls, it appears…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 27, 2022

listening to Senator Wyden and Senator Brown about Social Security, I would tell my colleagues that the first recipient of Social Security was a Vermonter. And Vermonters at that time, I believe, were the most Republican State in the…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 27, 2022

I understand the floor vote is going to be soon. I ask unanimous consent that it be after I finish my remarks. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 26, 2022

Essentially, what Trump is doing is denying the reality of what we all saw with our own eyes and experienced.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 26, 2022

You know what it epitomizes is Donald trump began the lie, the stop the steal lie. It culminated in January 6th.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 26, 2022

If there is an assault on the election outcome, there is an effort to really insurrect -- have an insurrection to overturn the peaceful transfer of power, that is existential to the future of our democratic society.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 26, 2022

We have 100 -- over 100 candidates running on the republican side for U.S. Senate, for Congress, for governor, for secretary of state whose campaign is stop the steal.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 26, 2022

A big issue of concern for many people in Vermont is making certain that we restore and strengthen our democratic institutions.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 452, H.R. 6899. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

For the information of the Senate, there will be two rollcall votes at 11:30 a.m. and one rollcall vote at 1:45 p.m. ____________________

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:33 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 10 a.m…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 6899) was…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

I rise today to say a few words about the state of democracy, both in terms of the upcoming election in Brazil as well as here in the United States. It is no great secret that, today, democracies around the world are under great threat…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate consider the following nominations en bloc: Calendar Nos. 1056 and 1060; that the Senate vote on the nominations en bloc without intervening action or debate; that the motions to reconsider be…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 21, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Thursday, September 22; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 20, 2022

I think now is the time if you want to win an election to say you know what, I`m on the side of the vast majority of Americans, Black, White, Latino. I`m prepared to take on greedy, powerful corporate interests who are enjoying…

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 20, 2022

Last week, nearly 50 migrants who sought asylum and refuge in America were met with grossly un-American actions. Governor DeSantis deceived them and shipped them across the Nation, like chattel, to Martha's Vineyard all in search of hollow…

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