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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.
let me concur with my friend from Illinois on the issue. I have a question for my colleague from Texas. It is a very simple question. You have concerns about the issue of corporate liability. I get that. I happen not to agree with you. You…
I want to concur with what Senator Schumer said. What he said goes beyond economics. It goes beyond the desperation that tens of millions of working families are facing. It goes beyond the struggles of the people of Vermont or Kentucky…
The fact that Donald Trump has won tens of millions of working-class votes despite being a pathological liar and a fraud, speaks to the failure of the Democratic Party and standing up for those very families.
We have a very unlikely ally in President Trump. Nobody here has disagreed with Trump more times than I have. And yet here is what the leader of the Republican Party says. He says $2,000 ASAP. So, even on this issue, amazingly enough, the…
That is my understanding. And I think, you know, as Republicans do, they are going to let it be. But I get back to my friend--my friend from Texas, Senator Cornyn. We are asking a simple question. If you want to bring up corporate…
We have got to stay here and do the right thing, and that is pass legislation that was passed already in the House and that's providing $2,000 for every working-class person in this country.
Let me just make it clear for the majority leader that 10 out of the poorest 25 counties in the United States of America are located in Kentucky.
What Trump is doing and those people who support his approach are trying to delegitimize elections in this country. And that is undermining American democracy.
He asked me a question, as I understood it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
That is a good question. And then I will have to explain that to the people of the State of Vermont. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas has the floor.
I took you literally. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas. ____________________
Did the Senator from Texas ask me a question? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
The leaders of our country President Trump, President-Elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement. We have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000.
My plan is pretty simple is to demand that Mitch McConnell allow the United States Senate to vote up or down on that legislation that was passed by the House whether or not we could get to 12 or 13 Republicans that we need to pass the…
It's not only the huge tax breaks we gave to the wealthy. It's not only the fact we have a tax code that allows large profitable corporations like Amazon to pay virtually nothing in federal taxes. It's the hundred of billions of dollars in…
The leaders of our country, President Trump, President-elect Biden, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all in agreement, we have got to raise the direct payment to $2,000. So, that is where we are…
reserving the right to object, we should all be very, very clear. The working class of this country today faces more economic desperation than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and working families need help now--not…
The House did the right thing by, as you indicated, over a two-thirds bipartisan vote. They voted to increase the $600 direct payment to $2,000 for every working class adult in this country. And that is the right thing to do.
I am now threatening to hold up Senate work on the veto override of the National Defense Authorization Act if Majority Leader McConnell does not put a straight up or down vote of those $2,000 payments on the floor.
Let me thank the senior Senator from New York, the Democratic leader, for his strong statement. He is exactly right. In this kind of crisis, it is comical that suddenly our Republican friends, once again, discover that we have a deficit…
last week I indicated that it would be unacceptable for the Senate to recess for the Christmas holidays without providing substantial direct payments to the working families of our country and to their children. Majority Leader McConnell…
the Senator from Wisconsin talks about Democrats not taking yes for an answer. Let me tell you what we did not take for an answer. We did not take for an answer the Republican bill, which did not have a nickel for unemployment benefits. We…
this country faces the worst set of public health and economic crises that we have faced in over 100 years. As a result of the pandemic, more people than ever before are becoming infected, right now. Hospitalization is higher than it has…
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