Bernie Sanders

The very, very rich get richer, the middle class shrinks.

CEOs of large corporations now earn nearly 300 times what their workers make.

More than 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

Several of these new requirements I believe are nothing more than a back-handed way to make it easier to cut taxes

Yet my Republican colleagues have been absolutely determined to make certain that the wealthy and large corporations not contribute one penny more for deficit reduction.

If we do not act by November 3rd, we will default on our bills for the first time in our Nation's history.

Maybe, just maybe, we might want to ask the wealthiest people and the largest corporations who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share of taxes.

It is essential that the information that CBO provides Congress is as accurate as possible and as nonpartisan as possible

CBO has shed employees and seen a shrinking budget

Defaulting on our debt would be a disaster.

It is absolutely essential for the CBO to provide us with independent, nonpartisan, and unbiased scores or projections

We have to look at the broader picture of what is happening in America.

Let me say this, if I might. If I can get unanimous consent to speak after Senator Thune, that would be fine, and I would yield back to the Senator. How is that?

I want to thank Deputy Secretary Gibson and his boss, Secretary McDonald, for the very impressive work they are doing.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

We need trade policies that work for the working families of our nation and not just the CEOs of large, multi-national corporations.

I believe that we have an infrastructure which is crumbling, and that impacts everybody.

You represent a political party which overwhelmingly rejects what the vast majority of scientists are telling us about the most important environmental crisis facing humanity, and that is climate change.

Bottom line is that what we are voting on now is a much better bill than what we started with.

Epidemiology is one of the most important tools that science has.

When I was first elected to Congress in the 1990s, I worked very hard and successfully to establish what is called a cancer registry.

I am so delighted to hear the great confidence that my Republican colleagues now have in the EPA.

I strongly support this amendment.

What governments do closest to home is something that I believe makes a lot of sense.

I hope that you will remember what you are saying today and the great confidence you have in that agency, they will be well funded, and you will treat the administrators with respect.