Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
Bernard "Bernie" Sandersis an American politician, serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He has always caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously served for two years as chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. He publicly identified...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 September 1941
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
If credit unions can grow and prosper with a 15 percent cap, so can banks.
We have been expecting businesses to provide health insurance coverage, but is this fair? Or, should health insurance be like education, a public responsibility?,
Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.
Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.
In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.