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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2024

It is absurd to provide Israel with 2,000-pound bombs that could level an entire square block in the midst of Rafah which is an incredibly densely populated area.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2024

The American people want an immediate cease fire and they do not want more U.S. military aid going to the war machine.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2024

The Foreign Assistance Act is very, very clear – 6201, the provision – any entity, any state, any country that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid is in violation of law and should not continue to receive military aid from the United States.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2024

The goal is to defeat Hamas, but not to destroy or cause the enormous amount of destruction that we're now seeing in Gaza.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 11, 2024

Poll after poll suggests that the American people want an immediate cease fire. They want massive humanitarian aid to get in.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 9, 2024

some of my Republican colleagues held a press conference today, criticizing President Biden for his decision to stop sending additional bombs to Israel due to the Netanyahu government's apparent decision to launch a major military assault…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· May 8, 2024

I thank the Senator from Hawaii. First of all, I want to acknowledge my great appreciation for the work that the Senator and his committee have done on bringing attention to the ongoing challenge that communities that have been hammered…

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· May 8, 2024

May 11 will mark the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of a Palestinian American and accomplished Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. She was shot in the head while reporting on an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the…

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· May 7, 2024

We literally do not have the workers to fill the current jobs, let alone growth that industry wants to have in Vermont.

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

I rise in opposition to S. Res. 670, which, in my view, does, in fact, not go far enough to address the very serious crisis of bigotry taking place all over this country. Let me be very clear. Anti-Semitism is a vile and disgusting form of…

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

well, I would agree with the Senator from South Carolina on one point: People are disgusted with politics. And maybe the reason they are disgusted with politics is, despite what the vast majority of the American people want, the U.S…

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· May 2, 2024

We call on you to increase funding for HBCUs to reduce the cost of producing high quality physicians of color.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 2, 2024

This maybe Biden's Vietnam. I worry very much that President Biden is putting himself in a position where he has alienated not just young people, but a lot of the Democratic base in terms of his views on Israel and this war.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· May 2, 2024

I ardently advocate for the re-introduction of legislation which would specifically fund and protect the growth of HBCU medical schools.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· May 2, 2024

This would be transformational. It is a bill that is going to force corporate health care to accept transparency and competition.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· May 2, 2024

I ardently advocate for the re-introduction of legislation which would specifically fund and protect the growth of HBCU medical schools.

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Bernard Sanders
@bernardsanders· VT· May 2, 2024

We call on you to increase funding for HBCUs to reduce the cost of producing high quality physicians of color.

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