Bernard Sanders

Tuition for many healthcare professional programs is high and can be an impediment to many students.

99 million primary, 70 million dental, 156 mental health [people live in areas without enough health care providers].

We need approximately 100,000 more dentists across the United States.

I think this issue is huge and challenging, but one that is very amenable to some bipartisan work that can be done.

As Senator Sanders mentioned, we must address their maldistribution in society.

We must substantially, in my view, increase student loan debt forgiveness and scholarships through the National Health Service Corps Program.

female mortality rose in 43 percent of U.S. counties between 1992 and 2006.

Today I would like to salute the citizens of Vermont who are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Green Up Day.

We must continue to use all the means at our disposal to secure his release from an unjust imprisonment on trumped-up charges.

I urge my colleagues to hold the Government of China accountable for its human rights abuses.

Until we see genuine progress on human rights in China, we should withhold the granting of Most Favored Nation trading status.

A key issue regarding the basic rights of workers is a livable wage. There was a minimum wage increase that was from $4.25 to $5.15, but it is still not livable.

America is now the most economically stratified country in the industrialized world.

I think the answer to the problem would be to require companies to... raise the minimum wage to something that is easily livable.

There is no Social Security crisis. But if Democrats and Republicans get their way and privatize the system, there will be.

I strongly support the Appropriations Committee's thoughtful recommendation not to appropriate funds this year to the ESAF, a facility within the International Monetary Fund. I want to thank the committee for listening to and addressing my…

Today, Congressman Kennedy and I will be sending to the President a letter signed by 112 Members of Congress, urging the President to stand firm against all attempts to delete the state single-payer option from his national health care…

Mr. Speaker, let me begin with a profound remark: Two plus two equals four. In other words, there is a logical and rational process called cause and effect. In terms of Newtonian physics, that means that every action causes an equal and…

I am delighted to inform you that yesterday the Vermont State Legislature became the first in the Nation to require labeling of all milk products which come from BST-injected cows--and the Governor has indicated that he will sign this…

I am deeply concerned about the entire process by which the FDA approved Monsanto's rBGH, as well as their recently published labeling guidelines. The Food and Drug Administration can only blame itself for the growing opposition to…

I rise in strong support of the alternative budget developed by the congressional Black Caucus in coalition with the House Progressive Caucus offered today as the Mfume substitute. Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I do not support every single line…

imagine a group of family farmers or dairy companies or a grocery story being sued by a giant multinational drug company simply for putting a label on their milk saying that they do not use a new drug that causes illness in cows, a drug…

I stand in strong support for this small State amendment to H.R. 6... This catastrophic cutback in Vermont's funding will threaten the stability of our program and certainly make it very difficult for Vermont to carry out the intent of…

I stand in strong support for this small State amendment to H.R. 6 and thank the chairman and his staff for working with us to reach a successful compromise. Mr. Chairman, as you know, the State of Vermont is subject to a $2 million cut in…

Mr. Speaker, this is a very difficult resolution for me. As it happens, virtually my father's entire family was murdered by Hitler when they were living in Poland. I have very strong feelings about anti-Catholicism or gay bashing or…