Bernie Sanders

This budget deals with the outrage that the pharmaceutical industry owns the United States Congress.

We will absolutely work with you.

Real wages, inflation accounted for wages in America, are lower today than they were 48 years ago.

The $1,400 direct payment that about 85 percent of our people received was enormously helpful in easing the anxiety and the pain.

In America, we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.

In the richest country in the history of the world, the working families of this country continue to struggle economically with millions of our people continuing to live in desperation.

The very good news is I believe we are making significant progress in fighting our way out of both of those disasters.

What does the President's budget do in terms of improving life in those communities?

The decisions that we make as a Congress will determine the very future of this Nation.

Today in America, over half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, and millions are trying to get by on 8, 9, 10 bucks an hour, which, in my view, is a starvation wage.

A Federal budget speaks to who we are as a Nation and where we want to be in the future.

To my mind, in the richest country on Earth, it is hard to believe that millions of seniors do not have teeth in their mouths, do not have the hearing aids that they need, do not have the eyeglasses they need.

The budget that President Biden has submitted to Congress constitutes a significant, significant step forward for the working families in this country.

In terms of health care, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people, and yet we pay the highest prices in the world for health care.

We have endured the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

My last question is while some of my colleagues may not appreciate it, the scientists are pretty clear that climate change is an existential threat to this planet.

I hear my Republican colleagues talk about problems, and somehow they forget issues like we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth while the very rich are richer.

This budget begins to move us forward in terms of providing progressive tax legislation that finally asks the wealthy and large corporations to begin paying their fair share of taxes.

Now is the time to put our people back to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.

We have got to deal with infrastructure. We got to deal with climate. We got to deal with the high cost of prescription drugs.

We cannot allow Republican governors and legislators to deny African Americans and young people and Latinos the right to vote.

If we are serious about calling ourselves democracy, we need to end voter suppression and make it easier for people to vote.

There is no issue more important to me and to most of my colleagues than the need to take on this ugly voter suppression and to defend American democracy.

In the last 21 elections, in 19 case, the opposition party has won seats. We can`t lose seats. If you want to gain control of the House and Senate, do something bold that helps working families.

It is time to go bold and big for the American people