Bernie Sanders

If you are a progressive, then I would hate to see who is conservative, with all due respect.

Let me reclaim the time from my friend. I have appeared on national TV programs, I am going to be on one tonight, as a matter of fact, but the issue of why the United States is the only country in the world without a national health care…

I will withdraw my amendment, Mr. Chairman, with the hope that all of us can focus on a major crisis that exists all over this country, perhaps most clearly in rural America, and with the hope that we can work together to begin effectively…

I would hope that at conference committee time an effort could be made to expand funding or add funding to that in order to make sure that low-income kids in this country do not continue to have teeth rotting in their mouths.

I do not know if my colleague saw it, but we have very strong supply management components in the legislation.

I just wanted to mention to my friend that between 1985 and 1995, the workforce, the American workforce of General Electric went down from 245,000 to 150,000, precisely because it is the policy of General Electric to take American jobs to…

This is a place holder for the Senate and the conference committee to do what we did last year in developing a comprehensive bill and doing away with the pricing loopholes.

Mr. Chairman, what I wish to say to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), I hope in conference committee and in my colleague's work with the Senate, can we have some assurance from the…

Not only is the President's tax proposal grossly unfair, and the statistics that I have seen are even higher than that, that the wealthiest 1 percent end up getting 50 percent of the tax breaks.

Today, the United States has over a $400 billion trade deficit, which means that products that used to be manufactured in the United States by workers here who are making a living wage are now being manufactured in China, Mexico, many…

Mr. Speaker, the Republican proposal is grossly unfair and grossly irresponsible. At a time when millions of middle-class families are struggling to keep their heads above water, the Republican proposal provides 43 percent of the tax…

It is an outrage, as my friend indicates, that the American people have to flee their own country to purchase prescription drugs manufactured in the United States.

If what I am hearing the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) say is that he is prepared to put $2.5 million from a source that he will determine into indigenous NGOs to combat trafficking.

The issue here is I know that we all agree on the crisis and we all want to do something about it. My concern is that at least $2.5 million go to indigenous NGOs. Mr. Chairman, is the gentleman saying that he is prepared to try to find…

The gentleman is technically correct, what it does do is take $2.5 million from IMET and transfer it and increases funds for USAID's development assistance account. Clearly the intent of everything that I am speaking about is to use that…

It increases U.S. AID's development assistance account by $2.5 million to provide assistance to indigenous and locally-based NGOs.

In at least eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa, between 20 and 35 percent of children under 15 have lost one or both parents. Let us stop and think what that would mean to our hometowns or our State. One-third of the children under 15…

Mr. Chairman, I would just put this on the scorecard of two wrongs do not make a right. EU absolutely does subsidize its wool and mohair producers. But when we look at New Zealand and Australia, we do not see that being the case. I think…

Just in conclusion, Mr. Chairman, there is no argument that family farmers all over the country are losing their farms. This is a national tragedy. I do not claim that this $2 million is going to save the world, but I think what it will do…

I believe that I was the first Member of Congress to go across the border with constituents to purchase prescription drugs. I have made that trip twice. I made a trip a year ago to Canada. Like everyone else that we have heard tonight, my…

I sat down with the President, along with many other Members of the Northeast; and that is almost a unanimous request that came out of the Northeast, release the SPR. That was our opinion, and it is my opinion today.

What we are proposing is that 2 million barrels be available to be released at the discretion of any President, the President, when heating oil prices zoom up. And what experts tell us and what we know to be the fact is that that will have…

In fact, my friend will remember that the one time, to the best of my knowledge, that SPR oil was threatened to be released by President Bush had a very significant impact around the time of the Gulf War in terms of lowering oil prices.

The gentleman asked me why we did not build a new facility; and the answer is that there is excess capacity available in New York Harbor.

I would simply argue, and I make no pretense that this is going to solve all the energy problems in New England, but I think what the experts tell us is that it will help reduce sharp increases in home heating oil prices, which will save a…