Bernie Sanders

Let me be very clear, we are not given up on this. We are going to come back with vote after vote and one way or the other. We are going to pass a $15 an hour minimum wage. That is what the American people want. And that is what the…

She has done an excellent job in working with Democrats and Republicans.

There is no doubt that she is highly qualified for this position and I strongly support her nomination.

We have an immigration crisis that must be addressed. It has been ignored for too long.

Those are not my ideas. That is what the Biden administration has been talking about.

We have a racial injustice crisis, and we will accelerate our effort to fight systemic racism.

We have a major health care crisis and are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, as a human right.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of nearly any major country on earth.

We have a terrible crisis with the pandemic, where we have lost half a million Americans.

Look, at the end of the day, Anderson, what is so upsetting about the Parliamentarian's decision is you've got 60 percent of the American people who want to raise that minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour.

Walmart is owned by the wealthiest family in this country. They are worth $200 billion, and yet they're starting off their workers at 11 bucks an hour.

If you are a large corporation making a whole lot of money, you should not pay your workers starvation wages.

I think every Democrat will vote the right way and the Vice President will give us the vote that we need.

If this isn’t in the final relief bill, we are going to pass a stand-alone raising of the federal minimum wage.

I strongly disagree with tonight's decision by the Senate parliamentarian. Yet because of the archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate, we are unable to move forward to end starvation wages in this country and raise the income of 32…

Well, Ms. Brown Barnes, thank you very much for your very important work.

Are you able to come up with any estimate as to how much in tax-supported programs low-wage workers nationally receive?

Why not $15? You do not have to wait on legislation or any law to be enacted. You can pay your workers today.

Congress has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pass the Raise the Wage Act, which is included in President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act.

We need to strengthen and expand these programs, but we also need to ensure that our labor market and broader economic policies rebalance bargaining power between workers and employers.

Not only will you be increasing your minimum wage from $15 to $16 an hour next week, but half of your hourly workers receive over $25 an hour.

It is time for the owners of Walmart, McDonald's, Dollar General, and other large corporations to get off welfare and pay their workers a living wage.

Study after study has shown that a gradual increase in the minimum wage does not lead to increased unemployment.

The simple truth is that no one in America can live with dignity, can raise a family on $11 or $12 an hour.

Is it correct that McDonald's was a top five employer of employees receiving Federal benefits in 14 of the 15 agencies?