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July 19, 2019 Leahy, Murray And Welch Reintroduce Legislation To Curtail Warrantless Vehicle Checkpoint Stops And Property Searches Away From The Border Sen. Peter Welch, ...
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "June was the hottest month ever recorded. Channai, India, a city of 9 million, is running out of water. Unprecedented heatwaves, floods and wildfires are devastating communities here. The time for incremental approaches to climate change is over. We need a Green New Deal." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "Abolish the Electoral College." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "Amazon didn't pay anything in federal income taxes last year. Not a nickel! Meanwhile Jeff Bezos is worth over $160 billion and is spending his money on going to outer space while millions of our people struggle. That is what a rigged economy looks like." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "This is how our corrupt political system works: Dow Chemical gives $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. In return Trump allows Dow Chemical to make huge profits off a dangerous chemical. We must put people over profits and end our corrupt campaign finance system." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "There's nothing "extreme" about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. What's extreme is paying workers starvation wages while CEO pay and corporate profits skyrocket. @senatemajldr stop blocking a raise for millions of Americans!" Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Sanders Statement on House Passage of $15 Minimum Wage Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Welch Calls for Impeachment of President Donald Trump Sen. Peter Welch
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "Trump said he would stand up to Big Pharma. He lied. Trump said he would bring relief to Americans dealing with outrageous drug prices. He lied. Trump said he would guarantee "insurance for everybody." He lied. We need to cut drug prices by 50%, not more lies." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Pocan Leads Members of Congress in Unveiling Bold Legislation to Fundamentally Reform the Private Equity Industry Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "6 in 10 Americans support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. @senatemajldr McConnell must listen to Americans and hold a vote on the Senate floor on a $15 minimum wage. Add your name to show him that the American people are with us:" Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader - Sanders Statement on House Passage of $15 Minimum Wage Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 17, 2019 Murphy, Blumenthal, colleagues introduce legislation to stop cruel and neglectful treatment of children at the border Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "No more premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-payments. That is what #MedicareForAll means for the American people." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "Some have described Medicare for All as too "risky." Here's what is risky: leaving tens of millions of Americans without health insurance every year, facing bankruptcy or death if they can't pay for health care or medication they need." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 16, 2019 Tweet - "No worker should be told they're lucky to get less than minimum wage. People with disabilities deserve jobs that pay a living wage. It's time to end the subminimum wage and guarantee truly integrated employment opportunities for people with disabilities." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 16, 2019 Sanders and Omar Lead Group of Dozen Lawmakers Calling for Investigation of Amazon Workplace Abuse Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 15, 2019 Tweet - "I fought to improve and pass Obamacare. I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare. But I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 15, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - After Successful Passage of His Blue Water Navy Legislation, Tester Leads Call for VA to Provide Timely Benefits to Vietnam & Korean War Veterans Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 14, 2019 Tweet - "Our job is to bring more and more young people and working class people into the political process. That is where the future of the Democratic Party and this country lies." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 14, 2019 NBC "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 13, 2019 Tweet - "We have a health care crisis. Every day, Americans die because they can't afford health care, while insurance and drug company CEOs get rich off their suffering. We cannot continue to tinker around the edges while 80 million Americans lack health insurance or are under-insured." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "During the Wall Street crash an estimated 15 million families lost their homes. Lloyd Blankfein didn't lose his home or his job. His bank got an $824 billion taxpayer bailout and Blankfein became a billionaire." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "If we can import tomatoes from Mexico, there is absolutely no reason why we cannot import affordable prescription drugs from Canada." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "Do you want to know why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? It might have something to do with the fact that the pharmaceutical industry spends endless amounts of money on lobbying and campaign contributions." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "The insurance industry, the drug industry, the NRA, the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex will spend outrageous sums of money to see us fail. I think that says a lot about our campaign. We stand with the people, not those who want to profit off suffering." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Tweet - "We cannot be a nation in which 40,000 veterans on any given night are forced to sleep on the streets. This cannot be normal." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Tweet - "How can it be that we have enough money to give tax breaks to billionaires and spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined, but we don't have enough to make sure that every American child has a roof over their head and enough food to eat?" Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Menendez, Booker, Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Stop Cruel and Neglectful Treatment of Children at Border Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 10, 2019 MSNBC "The Rachel Maddow Show - Transcript: "Interview with Bernie Sanders." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 10, 2019 Tweet - "Joe Biden recently said, "I don't think 500 billionaires are the reason why we're in trouble." I respectfully disagree. Any candidate who claims to believe black lives matter must take on the institutions that have continually exploited black lives." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 10, 2019 Providing for Consideration of H.R. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year and Providing for Consideration of Motions to Suspend the Rules Sen. Peter Welch
July 9, 2019 Blumenauer, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders Introduce Resolution to Declare the Climate Crisis a National Emergency Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 9, 2019 Menendez, Democrats Introduce Health Care Bill of Rights Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 9, 2019 CNN "Anderson Cooper 360" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 9, 2019 Bipartisan Bill to Help Communities Like Wiscasset with Stranded Nuclear Waste Introduced in the Senate Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 8, 2019 Tweet - "Republicans have no problem giving over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the rich and massive corporations. But when it comes to canceling student debt or tuition-free college, we "can't afford it." What hypocrisy!" Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 7, 2019 Tweet - "The business model of our health care system is about making as much money as possible regardless of the suffering that profiteering creates. Our job: fight to save Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital and pass Medicare for All to end the greed denying health care to millions." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 6, 2019 Tweet - "Imagine what we would be able to accomplish if we invested in sending our kids to college instead of to war." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 5, 2019 Tweet - "If we care about our teachers and our kids, we must pay every teacher in America at least $60,000 a year. #StrongPublicSchools" Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Jennifer Costello, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Harris, Colleagues Demand Thorough Investigation Into Anti-Immigrant Social Media Activity By Border Patrol Employees Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 2, 2019 Sanders Condemns ICE and CBP Impunity, Calls for the End of Family Detention Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 2, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Urge HHS Secretary to End Restrictions on Using Fetal Tissue for Scientific Research Sen. Peter Welch, ...
July 1, 2019 Welch, Gianforte Introduce Bill to Boost Small-State Minimums For Federal Program to Combat Homelessness Sen. Peter Welch
July 1, 2019 Brown, Senate Democrats Press OSHA, McDonald's Leadership to Take Action to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 1, 2019 Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
June 28, 2019 Wyden, Castro, Van Hollen, Sanders Reintroduce Measure to Restore Oversight of Federal Facilities Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "If you support Medicare for All, you must be willing to end the greed of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. That means transforming our dysfunctional system by ending the use of private health insurance, except to cover non-essential care like cosmetic surgeries." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "It is imperative that we remain steadfast in our commitment to guarantee health care as a human right and no longer allow private corporations to make billions of dollars in profits off Americans' health care." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "This is a disgrace. No child should go hungry in the United States of America. My first executive orders will be to reverse every single thing President Trump has done to demonize and harm immigrants." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Date Title Politician
July 19, 2019 Leahy, Murray And Welch Reintroduce Legislation To Curtail Warrantless Vehicle Checkpoint Stops And Property Searches Away From The Border Sen.Peter Welch, ...
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "June was the hottest month ever recorded. Channai, India, a city of 9 million, is running out of water. Unprecedented heatwaves, floods and wildfires are devastating communities here. The time for incremental approaches to climate change is over. We need a Green New Deal." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "Abolish the Electoral College." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "Amazon didn't pay anything in federal income taxes last year. Not a nickel! Meanwhile Jeff Bezos is worth over $160 billion and is spending his money on going to outer space while millions of our people struggle. That is what a rigged economy looks like." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 19, 2019 Tweet - "This is how our corrupt political system works: Dow Chemical gives $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. In return Trump allows Dow Chemical to make huge profits off a dangerous chemical. We must put people over profits and end our corrupt campaign finance system." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "There's nothing "extreme" about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. What's extreme is paying workers starvation wages while CEO pay and corporate profits skyrocket. @senatemajldr stop blocking a raise for millions of Americans!" Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Sanders Statement on House Passage of $15 Minimum Wage Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Welch Calls for Impeachment of President Donald Trump Sen.Peter Welch
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "Trump said he would stand up to Big Pharma. He lied. Trump said he would bring relief to Americans dealing with outrageous drug prices. He lied. Trump said he would guarantee "insurance for everybody." He lied. We need to cut drug prices by 50%, not more lies." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Pocan Leads Members of Congress in Unveiling Bold Legislation to Fundamentally Reform the Private Equity Industry Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 18, 2019 Tweet - "6 in 10 Americans support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. @senatemajldr McConnell must listen to Americans and hold a vote on the Senate floor on a $15 minimum wage. Add your name to show him that the American people are with us:" Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader - Sanders Statement on House Passage of $15 Minimum Wage Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 17, 2019 Murphy, Blumenthal, colleagues introduce legislation to stop cruel and neglectful treatment of children at the border Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "No more premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-payments. That is what #MedicareForAll means for the American people." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 17, 2019 Tweet - "Some have described Medicare for All as too "risky." Here's what is risky: leaving tens of millions of Americans without health insurance every year, facing bankruptcy or death if they can't pay for health care or medication they need." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 16, 2019 Tweet - "No worker should be told they're lucky to get less than minimum wage. People with disabilities deserve jobs that pay a living wage. It's time to end the subminimum wage and guarantee truly integrated employment opportunities for people with disabilities." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 16, 2019 Sanders and Omar Lead Group of Dozen Lawmakers Calling for Investigation of Amazon Workplace Abuse Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 15, 2019 Tweet - "I fought to improve and pass Obamacare. I traveled all over the country to fight the repeal of Obamacare. But I will not be deterred from ending the corporate greed that creates dysfunction in our health care system. We must pass Medicare for All." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 15, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - After Successful Passage of His Blue Water Navy Legislation, Tester Leads Call for VA to Provide Timely Benefits to Vietnam & Korean War Veterans Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 14, 2019 Tweet - "Our job is to bring more and more young people and working class people into the political process. That is where the future of the Democratic Party and this country lies." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 14, 2019 NBC "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 13, 2019 Tweet - "We have a health care crisis. Every day, Americans die because they can't afford health care, while insurance and drug company CEOs get rich off their suffering. We cannot continue to tinker around the edges while 80 million Americans lack health insurance or are under-insured." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "During the Wall Street crash an estimated 15 million families lost their homes. Lloyd Blankfein didn't lose his home or his job. His bank got an $824 billion taxpayer bailout and Blankfein became a billionaire." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "If we can import tomatoes from Mexico, there is absolutely no reason why we cannot import affordable prescription drugs from Canada." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "Do you want to know why we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? It might have something to do with the fact that the pharmaceutical industry spends endless amounts of money on lobbying and campaign contributions." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 12, 2019 Tweet - "The insurance industry, the drug industry, the NRA, the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex will spend outrageous sums of money to see us fail. I think that says a lot about our campaign. We stand with the people, not those who want to profit off suffering." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Tweet - "We cannot be a nation in which 40,000 veterans on any given night are forced to sleep on the streets. This cannot be normal." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Tweet - "How can it be that we have enough money to give tax breaks to billionaires and spend more on defense than the next 10 countries combined, but we don't have enough to make sure that every American child has a roof over their head and enough food to eat?" Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 11, 2019 Menendez, Booker, Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Stop Cruel and Neglectful Treatment of Children at Border Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 10, 2019 MSNBC "The Rachel Maddow Show - Transcript: "Interview with Bernie Sanders." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 10, 2019 Tweet - "Joe Biden recently said, "I don't think 500 billionaires are the reason why we're in trouble." I respectfully disagree. Any candidate who claims to believe black lives matter must take on the institutions that have continually exploited black lives." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 10, 2019 Providing for Consideration of H.R. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year and Providing for Consideration of Motions to Suspend the Rules Sen.Peter Welch
July 9, 2019 Blumenauer, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders Introduce Resolution to Declare the Climate Crisis a National Emergency Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 9, 2019 Menendez, Democrats Introduce Health Care Bill of Rights Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 9, 2019 CNN "Anderson Cooper 360" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 9, 2019 Bipartisan Bill to Help Communities Like Wiscasset with Stranded Nuclear Waste Introduced in the Senate Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 8, 2019 Tweet - "Republicans have no problem giving over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the rich and massive corporations. But when it comes to canceling student debt or tuition-free college, we "can't afford it." What hypocrisy!" Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 7, 2019 Tweet - "The business model of our health care system is about making as much money as possible regardless of the suffering that profiteering creates. Our job: fight to save Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital and pass Medicare for All to end the greed denying health care to millions." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 6, 2019 Tweet - "Imagine what we would be able to accomplish if we invested in sending our kids to college instead of to war." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 5, 2019 Tweet - "If we care about our teachers and our kids, we must pay every teacher in America at least $60,000 a year. #StrongPublicSchools" Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 3, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Jennifer Costello, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Harris, Colleagues Demand Thorough Investigation Into Anti-Immigrant Social Media Activity By Border Patrol Employees Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 2, 2019 Sanders Condemns ICE and CBP Impunity, Calls for the End of Family Detention Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 2, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Urge HHS Secretary to End Restrictions on Using Fetal Tissue for Scientific Research Sen.Peter Welch, ...
July 1, 2019 Welch, Gianforte Introduce Bill to Boost Small-State Minimums For Federal Program to Combat Homelessness Sen.Peter Welch
July 1, 2019 Brown, Senate Democrats Press OSHA, McDonald's Leadership to Take Action to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 1, 2019 Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
June 28, 2019 Wyden, Castro, Van Hollen, Sanders Reintroduce Measure to Restore Oversight of Federal Facilities Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "If you support Medicare for All, you must be willing to end the greed of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. That means transforming our dysfunctional system by ending the use of private health insurance, except to cover non-essential care like cosmetic surgeries." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "It is imperative that we remain steadfast in our commitment to guarantee health care as a human right and no longer allow private corporations to make billions of dollars in profits off Americans' health care." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "This is a disgrace. No child should go hungry in the United States of America. My first executive orders will be to reverse every single thing President Trump has done to demonize and harm immigrants." Sen.Bernie Sanders
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