Bernie Sanders

We need to guarantee and do what every other major country on Earth does, and that is to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.

We are going to talk about the obscenity of the 50 wealthiest Americans now owning more wealth than the bottom half of our society.

The simple truth is that today in America the very, very rich are getting much richer, while tens of millions of working-class Americans are struggling to put food on the table and take care of their basic needs.

The issue we`re dealing with is will the Democratic Party, and we`re off to a really good start, have the courage to address the crises facing the American people even if it means taking on the big money interest.

We need to take a hard look at that and determine the kind of country we want to become. And I do not believe we want to become an oligarchy.

What I wanted to say is Jeff, you are worth $180 billion, B, $180 billion. You are the wealthiest person on earth. Why are you spending millions of dollars trying to defeat a union organizing effort in Alabama where your workers are…

It is finally seeing the United States Congress taking a hard look at the problems facing working families and responding rather than listening to corporate lobbyists, rather than listening to wealthy campaign contributors.

It shows that, in fact, not only can government respond to the crises and the pain that people are feeling.

The desperate plea from parents as dozens of new bills target trans kids in sports.

According to one study, under the version of the tax proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), a typical retirement investor will end up with 8.5 percent less in his or her 401(k) or IRA after a lifetime of savings.

A typical retirement investor will end up with 8.5 percent less in his or her 401(k) or IRA after a lifetime of savings.

The next reconciliation bill will deal with our structural problems, not just the emergency problems of how we can create millions of good paying jobs.

This legislation is quite comprehensive in attempting to address the needs of working families.

We're putting money into making sure that millions of workers do not lose the pensions that they were promised.

This legislation will expand the child tax credit and lower childhood poverty in America by up to 50 percent.

In the richest country in the history of the world, people should not be going hungry.

What this legislation does, Anderson, is it addresses a crisis that this country has ignored for too long.

The American people want it, overwhelmingly large numbers of people support raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.

I am going to pass that bill.

The Biden administration, I think in the last month has made real progress, but we have a long, long way to go

We're not going to get our kids back to school safely. We're not going to get our economy humming the way it should be, and create the millions of jobs we need to create unless we crush the pandemic

This is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades

It says to me that the Republicans have turned their back on the needs of working families.

I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. There are some people here who do not understand the crises facing the American people. Sixty-three percent of our people today are living paycheck to paycheck. Every day that we do not…

I call up my amendment No. 972. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for himself and others, proposes an amendment numbered 972 to amendment No…