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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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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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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

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

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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

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

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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

Israel had a right to respond against Hamas. But Netanyahu’s extremist government has instead waged an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people.

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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

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

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

commondreams.org
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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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 24, 2025

I think very few people who understand politics can deny that, by and large, for the last 30, 40 years, the Democratic Party has turned its back on the working class of this country.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 24, 2025

Trump helped me immensely in educating the American people to what oligarchy is.

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