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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Sep 9, 2024

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

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Sep 9, 2024

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.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Sep 9, 2024

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 7, 2024

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 7, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 7, 2024

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 7, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 7, 2024

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 13, 2024

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 13, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 13, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 13, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2024

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

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2024

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…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2024

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.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2024

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

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jul 31, 2024

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…

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