The only way that we are going to deal effectively with the pandemic and get vaccines into the arms of people, increasing vaccine production, the only way we are going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, so people are not working for starvation wages, the only way we're going to open up schools in a way that is safe, the only way that we are going to put people back to work in restaurants, and protect small businesses, the only way we're going to do that is through reconciliation.
Bernie Sanders: “The only way that we are going to deal effectively with the pandemic and get vaccines into the arms of people…”
On the recordJanuary 28, 2021
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Senator Sanders explains the necessity of using reconciliation to pass legislation addressing the pandemic and economic issues.
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