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Bernie Sanders is an American politician and activist who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. A member of the Independent party, Sanders is known for his progressive policies and advocacy for social justice, healthcare reform, and income equality. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, where he was the first independent elected to the House in 40 years. Throughout his career, Sanders has been a vocal critic of economic inequality and corporate influence in politics.
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…
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…
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…
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).
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.
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?
The $1,400 direct payment that about 85 percent of our people received was enormously helpful in easing the anxiety and the pain.
Now is the time to put our people back to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The very good news is I believe we are making significant progress in fighting our way out of both of those disasters.
The budget that President Biden has submitted to Congress constitutes a significant, significant step forward for the working families in this country.
In America, we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth.
The United States, I say to my colleagues, used to be the best-educated country on Earth.
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