If we had Medicare for All before this pandemic started, hospitals would have been better prepared to respond.

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

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

Now Medicare for All would solve each of these problems, allowing us to cover everyone and at the same time to improve the quality of coverage, eliminating co-pays, deductibles, and narrow insurance networks.

the option that most resembles the Medicare For All bill that I introduced, which is option three, would save the health care system $650 billion a year beginning in 2030

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

the recently leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization signals what many of us have feared would happen: At least five rightwing Supreme Court Justices seem poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and abolish the…

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…

this motion is cosponsored by Senator Johnson of Wisconsin, and I have to say that we are on a roll tonight. We have already voted to give $53 billion in corporate welfare to the microchip industry. We voted to give $125 billion in tax…

I call up my motion to instruct, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] moves that the managers on the…

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…

recent polls suggest that Congress has a 19-percent favorability rating, and I find that shocking. Clearly, if that 19 percent had any inkling as to what goes on here in the Senate, that number would be much lower. Over and over again, I…

may I have 30 seconds in response? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

no one disagrees that we need to manufacture more microchips here in the United States, but we should not be providing a $53 billion blank check to the highly profitable microchip industry with no protections for the American taxpayer. The…

I call up my motion to instruct, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] moves that the managers on the part of the Senate…

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

And today we are going to be discussing a very important issue that gets much too little attention here in the halls of Congress or in the corporate media.

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.