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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

As bad as the last year and a half has been, at least Israel let some — some, not enough, but some aid through. But what is happening right now is unthinkable.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Apr 2, 2025

I fully support the resolution of Senator Kaine, and I want to make three points. No. 1, should Congress continue to abdicate its constitutional responsibility, ceding it to the Executive? No. 2, I want to talk about the total…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

It is American bombs and American military equipment being used to destroy Gaza, kill 50,000 people, injure over 110,000 people.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of this is unconscionable. We are talking about a mass atrocity.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

None of these systems are defensive, none of them are necessary to protect Israel from incoming drone or rocket attacks.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

That is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Foreign Assistance Act, and basic human decency. It is a war crime. You don’t starve children.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

We spend far more per capita for health care than other nations. Yet, according to Gallup, 91 million Americans could not afford to pay for medical care if they needed it today.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

All of these systems have been linked to dozens of illegal airstrikes, including on designated humanitarian sites, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

Today, it is 31 days and counting with absolutely no humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. Nothing. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel, for over a month.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 2, 2025

There is a name and a term for forcibly expelling people from where they live. It is called ethnic cleansing. It is illegal. It is a war crime.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Apr 1, 2025

There’s a real abdication by Congress of its own authority.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 2025

There is a name for such a policy — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Mar 31, 2025

I rise today to recognize Duncan McDougall, who stepped down as the executive director of the Children's Literacy Foundation after 25 years leading the nonprofit organization that he founded. Duncan started CLiF in his garage in Waterbury…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 2025

Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation's history.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Mar 31, 2025

Thank you. Senator, I have been listening to many of your hours of speech. You are talking about immigration now, and I have another question about the immigration policy. You know, I think all of us understand that it is absolutely…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 31, 2025

President Trump and Elon Musk have suggested that 'millions and millions' of dead people receive Social Security checks. That is an outrageous lie designed to undermine Americans' faith in Social Security.

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