| March 17, 2022
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Welch Supports Major Funding Legislation, Including Ten Welch Community Projects and Aid to Ukraine
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Sen. Peter Welch
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| March 17, 2022
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Letter to Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Brown, Colleagues Call for Review of Wells Fargo Refinancing Process
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 16, 2022
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Tweet - "If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, a $23 million mansion with 25 bathrooms and a rocket ship to blast a comedian to outer space, you know what? Amazon can afford to give its employees a $3 raise. I stand in strong solidarity with the Amazon workers walkout."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 16, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Wyden, Merkley Urge White House to Include $4 Billion in Homeless Assistance Grants in its FY2023 Budget
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 15, 2022
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Tweet - "Why is the price of oil LOWER today than it was in 2014 while the average price for a gallon of gas nationwide is 80 cents a gallon HIGHER than it was eight years ago? Answer: Corporate greed. Now is no time for profiteering. Now is the time for a windfall profits tax."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 15, 2022
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Sanders, Colleagues Call on VA to Protect Veterans' Care
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 15, 2022
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Sanders Amendment to Double Funding for Nurses Passes Committee
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 14, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Lloyd Austin III, Secretary of Defense Department of Defense - Reps. Gallego, Crow, Jacobs, Larsen, Malinowski Lead Call for Progress on Civilian Harm at DOD
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 14, 2022
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Letter to the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform - Grassley Pushes For Financial Management Oversight At Department Of Defense
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 14, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States - Negotiations on Historic Climate Investments
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 14, 2022
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Sanders Announces Winners of 12th Annual State of the Union Essay Contest for Vermont Students
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 12, 2022
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Tweet - "If we can spend $782 billion on the military industrial complex and handout $52 billion in corporate welfare to the profitable micro-chip industry, please do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All during a pandemic or the Green New Deal during a climate emergency."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 11, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Hon. Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives - Reed Discusses Replenishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 10, 2022
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Sanders Statement on End of MLB Lockout
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 10, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary Department of Homeland Security, and Tae Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Reps. Grijalva Calls for End to Title 42
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 10, 2022
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Tweet - "I'm delighted to see an agreement reached so that the MLB season can start. But we must prevent the greed of baseball's oligarchs from destroying the game. The best way to do that is to end MLB's antitrust exemption and I will be introducing legislation to do just that."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 10, 2022
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Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader of the House, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader - Rep. Susie Lee Demands Investigations Into Price Gouging by Oil Companies
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 9, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States - Urging Biden Administration to Address Student Loan Debt
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 9, 2022
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Tweet - "This is oligarchy. This is greed. This is callousness. Last year, over 2 million people worldwide died of hunger. At the same time, the world's 2,755 billionaires saw their wealth go up by $5 trillion -- from $8.6 trillion to $13.8 trillion. This is why we need a tax on wealth."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 9, 2022
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Tweet - "If there's one thing to learn from this horrible crisis it's this: We must end our dependence on big oil & authoritarian regimes for expensive fossil fuels that are destroying the planet & harming our economy. Now, more than ever, we need a Manhattan Project for renewable energy."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 8, 2022
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Letter to Charles Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader - Gillibrand Calls For Senate To Extend USDA School Meal Programs; Calls For McConnell To Drop "Callous Opposition'
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 8, 2022
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 8, 2022
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Sanders Statement on Passage of Major Postal Reform Bill
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 8, 2022
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Tweet - "Today the Senate passed the Postal Service Reform Act. Is this all that is needed to fix the problems of the Postal Service? No, it is not. But it's an important step forward for one of our nation's most important government agencies, for its workers, and for our communities."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 8, 2022
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Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader of the House - Addressing Rising Prices and Severe Supply Chain Issues, Sinema Urges Congressional Leaders to Continue Boosting American Semiconductor Investments
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 5, 2022
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Tweet - "Super-large yachts have become the status symbol of the billionaire class. And Russian oligarchs are not the only people who own them. While half of our people work paycheck to paycheck, members of the American oligarchy spend hundreds of millions to build their very own yachts."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 4, 2022
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Tweet -"The GOP claims to be the party of the working class. Yet, the head of the GOP campaign arm released a plan to raise taxes on half of Americans while imposing massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and education. Oh, yeah. They sure LOVE working people. No doubt."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 4, 2022
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Sanders, Colleagues Demand Answers from Big PhRMA on Widespread Price Hikes on Popular Prescription Drugs
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 4, 2022
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Tweet - "Oligarchy and massive wealth inequality exists not just in Russia. It's worldwide. Since the pandemic, while the wealth of the world's 10 richest people DOUBLED, the income of 99% of the world's population declined. The result: More yachts for the rich. More hunger for the poor."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 4, 2022
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More Than 30,000 Vermont Households Join Sanders Statewide Telephone Town Meeting
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 3, 2022
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Letter to Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture - Warner & Kaine Urge Changes to SNAP Benefits Guidance to Address Food Insecurity among Students
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 3, 2022
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Tweet - "This is what Oligarchy and Authoritarianism is all about. Putin is not only destroying Ukraine and the Russian economy. He is now in the process of ending the last vestiges of Russian democracy and free speech."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 3, 2022
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Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader - Feinstein, Heinrich, Colleagues Urge Extension of USDA Support for School Meal Programs as Schools Transition Back to Normal Operations
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 3, 2022
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Tweet - "Unfortunately, we have a corrupt political system and some Senators are more interested in getting campaign contributions from the wealthy and the powerful than doing the work of the American people. It's a sad state of affairs."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 2, 2022
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Budgetary Revisions
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 2, 2022
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Tweet - "Putin and his oligarch friends have stolen from the Russian people. They have it all while ordinary people are suffering. I have so much respect for the incredibly brave people in Russia who are out on the streets protesting against what their president is doing."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| March 2, 2022
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Letter to Chet Thompson, President and CEO of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers - Rush, McNerney, Energy Subcommittee Members Press American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers on Russian Oil Imports
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 2, 2022
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Lawson, Hayes, Torres, Warren, Sanders, Padilla, Murphy, Colleagues Urge Usda to Issue Clearer Guidance That Informs Students of Their SNAP Benefits
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture - Senators Warnock, Warren, Sanders, Padilla, Murphy, Lawson, Hayes, Torres, Colleagues Urge USDA to Issue Clearer Guidance that Informs Students of Their SNAP Benefits
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Tom Vilsack, Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture - Representatives Young, Moore Lead 112 House and Senate Colleagues in Urging USDA to Update the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Packages, Ensure Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Families
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States - Klobuchar, Bipartisan Group of Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Ukrainians
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Letter to Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Squeezing American Families With Rapid and Widespread Price Hikes on Prescription Drugs
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United Rights - Warner & Kaine Urge Biden Administration to Designate Ukraine for Temporary Protected Status
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| March 1, 2022
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Rep. Peter Welch Announces Virtual Guest for President Biden's State of the Union Address
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Sen. Peter Welch
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| March 1, 2022
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Rep Welch's Statement on President Biden's First State of the Union Address
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Sen. Peter Welch
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Tweet - "Corporate greed is Amazon blaming a 17% increase in its prime membership fees on labor costs while its profits soared 56% last year to $33 billion & Jeff Bezos became $74 billion richer during the pandemic. The problem is not the Amazon worker making $15 an hour. It's greed."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States - Calling for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Be Granted to Ukrainians
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Tammy Baldwin, and Hon. Joe Hoeven, Chair and Ranking Member, Senate Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, and Hon. Sanford Bishop and Hon. Andy Harris, Chair and Ranking Member, House Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee - ICYMI: Young, Panetta, Brown Lead Bipartisan Group Requesting Funding for The Emergency Food Assistance Program
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Tweet - "Starbucks could give every one of its 383,000 workers a $5,000 bonus & still keep $2.6 billion in profits from last year. Instead they're raising prices while spending $20 billion on stock buybacks & dividends when profits are up 31%. Don't blame inflation. Blame corporate greed."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, Antony Blinken, Secretary of States - Rep. Gomez Leads 98 Members in Urging Biden Administration to Designate Ukraine for TPS or DED and Special Student Relief
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 28, 2022
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Letter to the Hon. Joe Biden, President of the United States - Senators Durbin, Menendez, Portman Lead Letter Urging Biden Administration To Designate Ukraine For Temporary Protected Status
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 26, 2022
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Tweet - "We can no longer allow big oil companies, huge corporations and the billionaire class to use the murderous Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to price gouge consumers. It is time to enact a windfall profits tax and reasonable price controls."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Blackburn, Colleagues Call to Improve VA Caregivers Program for Veterans and Their Families
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Senator Murray Leads Bipartisan Call to Improve VA Caregivers Program for Veterans and Their Families
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Letter to Richard Glick, Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Senators Urge FERC to Stop Utility Companies from Making Captive Ratepayers Foot the Bill for Polluter Lobbying
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Tweet - "We need a new member of the Supreme Court who has a strong track record standing up for justice -- economic justice, racial justice, social justice, political justice and environmental justice. There is no doubt that Judge Jackson is that person. I strongly support her nomination."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Sanders Statement on Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 25, 2022
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Letter to Robert Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration - Cicilline, Lee, Eshoo, Maloney Lead Colleagues in Urging FDA to End Homophobic Blood Donation Deferral Period
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 24, 2022
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Tweet - "It is outrageous, if unsurprising, that Trump would praise Putin's murderous invasion of Ukraine as an act of "genius." It should concern us all that Putin is exactly the kind of leader Trump would like to be, and that so few Republicans have the courage to say this out loud."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 23, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, Murphy Leads Senate Colleagues in Urging Biden Administration Against Re-Designation of Houthi Movement in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 23, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and Hon. Richard Shelby, Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations - Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Lead Bipartisan Call for Diaper Banks Funding in Final FY2022 Appropriations Package
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 23, 2022
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Tweet - "Corporate greed is Tyson Foods raising the price of beef by 35% while its owner became $1.6 billion richer during the pandemic, its profits skyrocketed by 140% last quarter to $1.12 billion and its CEO got a 22% raise last year to $14 million. It's not inflation. It's greed."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 22, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States - Urging POTUS to Seek Congressional Approval for Military Involvement in Russia-Ukraine Conflict
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 22, 2022
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Tweet - "Vladimir Putin's latest invasion of Ukraine is an indefensible violation of international law, regardless of whatever false pretext he offers. There has always been a diplomatic solution to this situation. Tragically, Putin appears intent on rejecting it."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 22, 2022
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Rep. Peter Welch's Statement on Russian Aggression in Ukraine
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Sen. Peter Welch
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| Feb. 22, 2022
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Sanders Statement on U.S. Response to Russia
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 20, 2022
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Tweet - "Today in America: - the two richest people own more wealth than the bottom 40% - the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92% That level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 19, 2022
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Tweet - "In the midst of our cold winters, one of the outdoor pleasures for many Vermonters is ice fishing. Recently, my team went out on the ice to hear from some Vermonters about why they love the sport. I hope you'll enjoy hearing what they had to say."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 18, 2022
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Tweet - "It is beyond belief that in 2022, as we face challenges like covid & climate change, any national leader would start a war that could kill thousands & create millions of refugees. There is a diplomatic solution to this crisis. It is tragic that Putin seems intent to reject it."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders
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| Feb. 18, 2022
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Letter to Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee - Duckworth, Cramer, Casey Lead Bipartisan Call for Diaper Banks Funding in Final FY2022 Appropriations Package
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 17, 2022
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Letter Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense - Urging TRICARE to cover COVID-19 Tests for Active-Duty Personnel and Military Families
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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| Feb. 17, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of the IRS - Warner Continues Push to Address IRS Issues Facing Taxpayers
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 17, 2022
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Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Hirono Joins 100+ Congressional Colleagues in Urging President Biden to Reverse Inhumane Immigration Policies
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 17, 2022
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Letter to Patrick Leahy, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby, Vice-Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Tammy Baldwin, Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - Van Hollen, Peters Call for $3 Million in Funding for PAWS Act
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
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| Feb. 17, 2022
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Letter to Hon. Tom Vilaseck, Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture- Maine Delegation Urges USDA to Implement Northeast Dairy Task Force Recommendations
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Sen. Peter Welch, ...
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