Bernie Sanders actually said...

We cannot pass a piecemeal because to do it through regular order, you need 60 votes. We’re not going to get one Republican vote.

Senator Sanders explains the necessity of passing the legislation through reconciliation due to lack of bipartisan support.

07/14/2021

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What we are discussing today, and this is such an important point, is poverty is like that.

the real outrage, it seems to me, and this is above and beyond the culprit, the horrors of the COVID pandemic, is that not all of our societ...

What I hope this legislation will do is restore the faith of the American people that the government can represent ordinary Americans, not j...

This is probably the most consequential piece of legislation since the 1930s.