Bernie Sanders

We’re going to end that. We are going to deal in the most aggressive way imaginable with the housing crisis.

No family in America would pay more than seven percent of their income for child care, universal pre K, free tuition at public colleges and universities.

This bill will substantially raise taxes on the richest people in this country and the largest corporations.

So, this is, I would say the most consequential piece of legislation being proposed since the Great Depression.

I think we are on the same page. My job is to do everything I can to see that the senate comes forward with the strongest possible legislation to protect the needs of the working families of this country, our kids, our parents. The deal…

It is not only the right thing to do, but what this Congressman knows, what Mitch McConnell knows, this is exactly what the American people want. So, it is good policy. It is good politics, and I and my colleagues are going to do…

I think we're going to do everything we can politically to rally the American people, everything that we can do legally and in the United States Senate, do everything we can to put pressure on our colleagues to finally stand up and say on…

We are going to have to win that struggle in order to preserve American democracy and end this big lie of Trump that he won the election by a landslide.

The house has already passed H.R. 1 and that is sweeping legislation to protect voting rights, to deal with gerrymandering, and to take dark corporate money out of the political process, something we have got to do.

It is progressive tax reform that says that maybe, just maybe Jeff Bezos and other billionaires should stop paying their fair share of taxes.

We got to make higher education affordable. Those are the issues that are important to the American people.

The truth is that real wages in America today are lower than they were 48 years ago. The very, very rich are getting richer.

Well, from day one, Republicans opposed adding a supplement to normal unemployment, and at a time when tens of millions of people are working for starvation, wages, their theory is, if you have low unemployment benefits, you can stop…

In the richest country on Earth, you got to elderly people have no teeth in their mouth because Medicare does not cover dental, we don`t cover hearing aids, we don`t cover eyeglasses.

We have got to deal with climate. And if we do not significantly invest in transforming our energy system, future generations will never forgive us.

They are still engaged in that kind of ideological struggle against the working class.

For the first time, we will finally have paid family and medical leave. We're the only major country on Earth, where if you have a baby today, you got to get back to work in a week because you're not guaranteed time off where your kids are…

I think at the end of the day, my guess is that both bills will pass. And I just want people to know, because I think there is a lot of alienation, disenchantment on the part of American workers with what goes on in Washington. And I think…

But what I can say is that where the spending is going, makes a lot of sense to me. It's directed toward bridges, roads, water systems, wastewater plants, broadband, heavily funded. That's the good news. That's we need to spend money in…

Later, Senator Bernie Sanders joins us in the big bipartisan infrastructure deal announced at the White House today, but also the much bigger and much less bipartisan spending deal both he and the President want to go along with it.

A competing proposal in Congress is the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, introduced by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

The United States, I say to my colleagues, used to be the best-educated country on Earth.

If a working mother has a baby today, she has got to go back to work in a week from now. Really? Is that what a civilized society is about?

We can raise up to $500 billion, which, among other things, we can use to expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing, eyeglasses, and lower the age of eligibility.

How absurd it is that we still, many of us, continue to live in the 1950s here dad went to work and mom stayed home with the kids.