Bernie Sanders

I am tired of seeing working-class families and small business pay far more for health care than they can afford.

Health care is a human right and not a privilege and that we must end the international embarrassment of our great country being the only major nation on Earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right to all of its people.

Medicare for All will save the average American family thousands of dollars a year.

What this debate has everything to do with is the unquenchable greed of the health care industry.

We are now spending $12,530 per capita on health care. This is an outrageous and unsustainable sum of money.

It is not acceptable to me that we end up spending over twice as much per capita on health care as other major countries around the world.

Bottom line is that your health and your longevity, how long you live, should not be a factor of how much money you have.

I believe everyone is entitled to receive care. It is a necessity.

You know, I hear this word ``competition,'' but I want everybody to know what the competition is in the space program. The competition is between Mr. Musk and SpaceX. Musk is the wealthiest guy in the country, and Jeff Bezos and Blue…

No one debates the need for chips. But to my friend from Ohio, I would say: You are right. We lost tens of thousands of jobs over the last 20 years. You know why? Because the same microchip companies shut down plants in America to go for…

I think that solidifies secret ballot.

Amazon has been beating up on American workers for too long, and our government has been letting them do it, and it needs to stop.

I have heard you and others come up here and say, oh, the PRO Act gets rid of secret ballot. I think that is just a flat-out misstatement.

If we are going to respect the democracy of a vote for a union then you are going to get some benefit from it.

We need the PRO Act. We need America to do the right thing.

Mr. Bezos, you have enough money to buy a $500-million yacht. You have got enough money to buy a $175-million estate in Beverly Hills and a $23-million mansion right here in D.C. Given all of your wealth, how much do you need? Why are you…

Amazon's flagrant disregard of the law infringed on workers' legal rights to a free and fair union election in Bessemer, Alabama, ruling that Amazon's behavior was, quote, 'dangerous and improper.'

Let me first thank all of our witnesses for being here, and we look forward to hearing your testimony.

In my view, that campaign promise was precisely right, and today I am reviewing my request to President Biden to fulfill that promise.

When the middle class of this country is struggling, when people are working longer hours for lower wages, when half of our people live paycheck to paycheck, when people cannot afford health care, they cannot afford childcare, they are…

In a Congress dominated by corporate lobbyists and wealthy campaign contributors, the idea that we would actually hear from the working class of this country is, in fact, radical, but I make no apologies for that.

Why are elected officials giving taxpayer money to a company that is willing to use any available means--illegal or not illegal--to deny workers their federally protected right?

If you can believe it, and, Mr. Graham, Senator Graham, this is really rather an astounding fact, according to a New York Times investigation, Amazon has a 150 percent turnover rate--150 percent.

The time for action is now. Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon who repeatedly break the law.

Should Federal taxpayer dollars go to companies that violate labor law and illegally prevent workers from exercising their constitutional rights to join a union?