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

But when you control your borders, you also have the opportunity to have an immigration policy that the Congress and the President think will benefit the American people. That benefits us, of course, if there is security at the border, but…

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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 30, 2025

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Mar 27, 2025

I want to clarify something for some of my colleagues and for leaders across this country because there seems to be some confusion. There is a big difference between taking a knee and bending a knee. Taking a knee shows that you can hold…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 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 27, 2025

Thank you, Senator Wyden. Mr. President, when I talk to Vermonters, as I am sure when you talk to Tennesseeans, everyday, hard-working people at the end of the month are struggling to pay their bills. It is expensive. And people are…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

Today, the oligarchs and the billionaire class are getting richer and richer and have more and more power.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

Blocking of humanitarian aid is a morally abhorrent and a clear violation of both the Geneva Convention and the Foreign Assistance Act.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

This country belongs to all of us, not just the few. We must fight back.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 27, 2025

Netanyahu has clearly violated U.S. and international law.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Mar 26, 2025

I want to thank my colleagues. You know, this issue of the environment is being completely--completely--ignored. Worse than that, the problems we have in our environment are being intensified by what the Trump administration is doing. You…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 26, 2025

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 26, 2025

Blocking humanitarian aid is morally abhorrent and a clear violation of both the Geneva Convention and the Foreign Assistance Act.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 26, 2025

Next week, I will force Senate votes on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval I have introduced to block certain offensive arms sales to Israel.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 26, 2025

Netanyahu has clearly violated U.S. and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in the carnage.

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