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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.

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Mar 7, 2023

Unions are the single most powerful tool we have to demand fair, just, and equitable treatment of workers.

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Mar 7, 2023

This Committee, by the way, must do everything possible to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

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Mar 1, 2023

Egregious and widespread misconduct, which showed, a general disregard for the employees' fundamental rights.

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Mar 1, 2023

As broken as our general health care system is, it seems to me that our primary health care system is even more broken.

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Mar 1, 2023

Your leadership is much appreciated by CHCs across the country.

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Mar 1, 2023

My own personal view, not shared by everybody on this dais, is that health care is a human right.

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Feb 28, 2023

The PRO Act would not only limit the rights of employers and workers but create substantial economic disruption.

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Feb 28, 2023

The PRO Act would not only limit the rights of employers and workers but create substantial economic disruption.

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Feb 27, 2023

The PRO Act would not only limit the rights of employers and workers but create substantial economic disruption.

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Feb 21, 2023

The reason that this debate is so important is that it reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s.

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Feb 21, 2023

Politicians, nonetheless, have seized on both the trivial mistakes, trivial mistakes, and the complexity of the science, to cast doubt on the underlying and unrefuted truth of human caused greenhouse gas accumulation.

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Feb 15, 2023

Senators should expect two rollcall votes at 4:30 p.m. today and three rollcall votes tomorrow.

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Feb 15, 2023

Support such as that displayed by Senator Collins and Sanders and others for a strategic health care faculty loan repayment programs is critical to ensuring the future of the health care workforce.

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Feb 15, 2023

Tuition for many healthcare professional programs is high and can be an impediment to many students.

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Feb 15, 2023

A shortage of health care personnel was a problem before the pandemic, and now it has gotten much worse.

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Feb 15, 2023

I hope that we can do what the pundits tell us that we can't do, and that is actually deal with the issues facing the American people.

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Feb 15, 2023

We need approximately 100,000 more dentists across the United States.

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Feb 15, 2023

The United States will face a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2034, including 48,000 primary care physicians.

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Feb 15, 2023

Simply put, it means that a significant percentage of our population live in places where they cannot access the health care they desperately need in a timely manner.

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Feb 15, 2023

Despite spending almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other major country, we have massive shortages in health care providers.

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Feb 15, 2023

I think being able to fund community-based clinic, primary care to expand our funding for primary care residencies, we would be very excited about that.

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Feb 15, 2023

I think this issue is huge and challenging, but one that is very amenable to some bipartisan work that can be done.

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Feb 15, 2023

If you are looking at a big debt that you need to pay off and there is a major hospital in Boston that will give you x additional salary, we need to at least--even if we don't even if we don't make up the entire amount, we need to offset…

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Feb 15, 2023

As Senator Sanders mentioned, we must address their maldistribution in society.

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Feb 15, 2023

The National Health Service Corps is one example of such a program, but it is simply inadequate in many ways to meet current needs.

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