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We can go back decades. This is a can that has been kicked over and over again.

What Americans need to be demanding of us--I don't care what party you are--what they should be demanding of all of us are real answers to these problems.

in late July, Vermonters and Americans mourned the passing of Bob Newhart, a talented and award-winning actor who changed the history of comedy forever. His celebrated television show, ``Newhart'' aired on CBS from 1982 to 1990 and gave…

We live in a nation today that has more income and wealth inequality than has ever existed in the history of the United States. People on top, the billionaire class, doing phenomenally well. Sixty percent of Americans are living…

I think that there is something wrong, personally, when we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all of our people, despite spending twice as much per capita.

Look, you have one vote, the average American has one vote, but billionaires could start a super PAC and put hundreds of millions of dollars – tens of millions of dollars – into defeating the people they don't like and supporting the…

When we’ve got 600,000 people sleeping out on the streets, when people can't afford to send their kids to college. You know what? You are going to start paying your fair share of taxes.

What I think Dick and Liz Cheney are saying is that in this existential moment in American history, it's not just issues. Cheney and I agree on nothing, no issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its…

I think every progressive in America understands that we've got to do everything we can to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

This is the most consequential election in her lifetime. She is running against somebody who is not only a pathological liar, I hear he is a very dangerous guy.

I think most progressives will say he is wrong, the president is wrong on Gaza. But the alternative is Donald Trump and that is not an acceptable alternative.

I have believed that -- I believe that the Biden Administration has been probably the most progressive administration in the United States since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I think the American people want somebody who's going to stand up for them and take on powerful special interests.

I think one of the misunderstandings that exist in the corporate media and in the political establishment is that standing up for working people, expanding Medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision, expanding Social Security, so that…

It's only believed by the corporate media and the political establishment. Working people know that the time is long overdue to have a government that represented them, rather than just wealthy campaign contributors.

If Governor Walz believes, for example, that we should cut the price of prescription drugs in this country in half to what they all around the rest of the world, over 70 percent of the American people believe that.

The American people overwhelmingly believe as the governor does, that we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following Senate resolutions: S. Res. 791, S. Res. 792, and S. Res. 793. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. There being no…