Sanders, Larson Call for Strengthening Social Security After GAO Study Examines Disability Wait Times

WASHINGTON, August 13 – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-Conn.) responded to new findings from a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study they commissioned which found that thousands of American die or go bankrupt waiting to receive their disability benefits each year. “It is absolutely unconscionable that thousands of

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Sanders, Colleagues Introduce Tax on Billionaire Wealth Gains to Provide Health Care for All

WASHINGTON, August 6 โ€“ Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a 60-percent tax on the windfall wealth increases of billionaires during this pandemic in order to pay forย all out-of-pocket medical expenses for every person in America for a year. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) introduced companion legislation in the House. The Make Billionaires Pay

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Sanders Speech: Do-Nothing Republicans Abandon Working Class in Pandemic

WASHINGTON โ€” Today, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lambasted the Republican legislative โ€œresponseโ€ to the coronavirus crisis, and denounced the shameful inaction of the Republican-controlled Senate. “What everybody should understand is that over two and a half months ago, the House did its job and responded to the enormous pain and suffering of the

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Sen. Sanders Announces $3 Million in Federal Funds for Affordable Housing in Vermont

BURLINGTON, August 5 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Wednesday that Vermont will receive $3 million from the National Housing Trust Fund to build, preserve and rehabilitate affordable rental housing for extremely low-income families. This is the fifth year in a row that Vermont will receive a $3 million allocation from the trust fund, which Sanders helped create. Sanders

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Sanders Supports Ending Filibuster

WASHINGTON, July 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the filibuster: “President Obama is absolutely right. It is an outrage that modern-day poll taxes, gerrymandering, I.D. requirements, and other forms of voter suppression still exist today. We must pass a comprehensive agenda to guarantee the rights and dignity of everyone in this country. And that means,

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Sanders Leads 14 Senators in Introducing Masks for All Act to Curb Deadly Coronavirus Surge

WASHINGTON, July 28 โ€“ As COVID-19 infections continue to surge across America and nearlyย 30 statesย impose public mask-wearing requirements, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and over three dozen of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and House introduced lifesaving legislation today to manufacture and distribute high-quality, reusable masks to everyone in America. Senate co-sponsors of Sandersโ€™ Masks for All Act include Democratic

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