Bernie Sanders
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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.
As Trump well knows, his executive order will be thrown out by the courts.
It is an outrage that the American people pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but NO, Donald Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar.
Today on Mother's Day, let's remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable childcare, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.
Defending exclusionary zoning at the local level in the name of socialism is hokum.
The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu's destruction of the Palestinian people.
Given that reality, one might think that there would be a vigorous discussion right here in the Senate: Do we really want to spend billions of taxpayer dollars starving children in Gaza?
More than that, he has repeatedly said that the United States will actually take over Gaza after the war.
It is our government, the United States government, that is absolutely complicit in creating and sustaining this humanitarian disaster.
Starving children to death as a weapon of war is a clear violation of the Geneva Convention, the Foreign Assistance Act, and basic human decency.
There is no ambiguity here: Netanyahu's extremist government talks openly about using humanitarian aid as a weapon.
Unfortunately and unacceptably, the Antisemitism Awareness Act we are considering today would label speech that criticizes the Israeli government and Netanyahu’s horrific war in Gaza as antisemitic and a violation of civil rights laws, and…
Today on Mother's Day, let's remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable childcare, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.
$7.25 an hour minimum wage is a starvation wage. It must be raised to a living wage — at least $17 an hour.
We have the radical idea of putting healthcare dollars into healthcare, not into profiteering or bureaucracy.
I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are.
We’re on the same page, but what Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future.
You want to run as a Democrat? Great. You want to run as an Independent? That's great, but you've got to get involved in the political process, because right now the two-party system is failing the working class of this country.
If we don't address that issue, the American people will continue to turn their backs on democracy, because they're looking around them and they're saying, 'Does anybody understand what I am going through?'
When the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, when big money interests are able to control both political parties, they are living in an oligarchy.





