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By: Evan Halper; Los Angeles Times As control of the Senate teetered early this year, Republicans warned of a menace they feared would be unleashed on America if they lost power: Bernie Sanders would call the shots over the federal budget. The reality for them may be even worse than they anticipated. The longtime outsider, irritant of the Democratic and Republican establishments and cantankerous gadfly

By: Brendan Cole; Newsweek Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has said that he would not back down in his quest to raise the federal minimum wage despite legislative setbacks in the Senate. Sanders, who chairs the Senate budget committee, is broadly happy with the $1.9 trillion stimulus package agreed on Saturday, telling CNN it was “the most significant legislation for working

By: Calvin Cutler; WCAX BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Vermont is slated to get a lot of money from the $1.9 trillion rescue plan approved by the Senate. And we’re following the money for you. So how much are we talking about and how exactly is the money going to be spent? About $1.3 billion in the form of stimulus checks,

PBS News For perspective on COVID relief and the congressional agenda we turn to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who chairs the Senate’s budget committee. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the minimum wage, the Republican response to President Biden’s agenda, and the need for federal aid for local and state governments during the pandemic. You can watch the

By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says Democrats should “ignore” the recent ruling of the Senate parliamentarian and is vowing to force the Senate to vote this week on an amendment to set the federal minimum wage at $15 an hour. Sanders on Monday declared he would not back down on his signature wage initiative after

By: Dominic Rushe; The Guardian US taxpayers should not be “forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America”, Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday. As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had “talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears