Bernie Sanders

The most business-friendly thing we can do is raise the minimum wage, provide extended unemployment benefits, encourage unionization.

Do you think the Walton family, worth $144 billion, is in need of welfare from the middle class of this country?

The idea that anybody could suggest that we are not seeing massive increases in income and wealth inequality is beyond my comprehension.

Should they pay their workers a living wage and should we raise the minimum wage to make sure that they do that?

95 percent of all new income generated in this country went to the top 1 percent.

There should be no debate at all over extending unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed.

Does anybody on the panel think that they need significant welfare help?

The reality that we are seeing today is that the middle class in this country is disappearing.

Raising the minimum wage it seems to me is critical.

42 percent of Americans' kids born into poverty will never get out of poverty.

Well, I am disappointed that there is objection to a bill that came out of committee without objection, that was done in a bipartisan manner, that is paid for, and that has the support of virtually every veterans organization. I hope that…

I rise to enter into a colloquy with the chairman of the Budget Committee, Senator Murray, and several of my colleagues regarding the not-for-profit student loan servicing provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Is it your…

It is very clear to me that we are making significant progress. It is also clear to me that there are a lot of problems that remain.

Thank you for the opportunity to offer our views on the VA's transformational progress.

The average amount of time it takes to resolve an appeal... is clearly unacceptable.

That is a very, very ambitious goal.

Veterans wishing to apply for pension do not currently have the capability to apply online.

General Hickey, your testimony contains some significant statistics.

So, what you are telling us is that everything being equal, if you get the budget that you need, you expect to achieve the Secretary's goals?

I think all of us have heard from veterans who are deeply concerned about the backlog.

It is a concern to the Veterans Service Organizations, I know it is a concern to every Member of this Committee.

We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, not give tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country.

I think centers, community health centers, can play a real important role in many places.

The startling statistic, which I think my public health colleagues can validate, is that fewer children in the United States today are immunized than that in Mexico, and that is something that we should be totally ashamed of.

Which is going to lead to a whole host of health problems, obviously.