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
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.
Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.
If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important. You have war and peace issues, economic priority issues, which are very important. And on those issues you can bring together coalitions, which redefine the normal paradigm which a lot of the corporate media creates when they talk about liberal and conservative.
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.
In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.