Sanders Statement on Republicans’ Use of ‘Nuclear Option’

WASHINGTON, April 6 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after Senate Republicans voted to change Senate rules to allow the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch and all other Supreme Court justices by simple-majority vote: “I am deeply disappointed that Republicans changed the rules so that they could push through their nominee with fewer than 60 votes.

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College for All Act Introduced

WASHINGTON, April 3 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced legislation Monday to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for working families and to significantly reduce student debt. โ€œHigher education in America should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,โ€ Sanders said. โ€œIf we are to succeed in a highly competitive global

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Senate Budget Panel Must Hold Hearings on Trump’s ‘Obscene’ Budget, Sanders Says

WASHINGTON, March 28 โ€“ Faulting an โ€œunprecedented break with past practice,โ€ Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Senate Budget Committee ranking member, on Tuesday called on the panelโ€™s chairman to schedule public hearings on President Donald Trumpโ€™s โ€œmorally obsceneโ€ budget blueprint. Sanders said the presidentโ€™s proposal โ€œincludes unacceptably painful cuts to programs that senior citizens, children, persons with disabilities and working people

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Sanders Statement on Defeat of Republican Health Care Bill

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 24 โ€“ U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement Friday after House Republican leaders pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor: “The defeat of the disastrous Trump-Ryan health care bill is a major victory for the working families of this country and for the hundreds of thousands who attended

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Sanders Opposes Gorsuch

WASHINGTON, March 23 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday on the nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court: “Americans deserve a Supreme Court justice who respects the rights of workers to be treated fairly instead of bowing to big business. We cannot stand

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Sanders: Reject SEC Nominee

WASHINGTON, March 22 โ€“ At a rally Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for the defeat of the Wall Street lawyer whom President Donald Trump wants to regulate Wall Street. โ€œWe need somebody who is prepared to confront the system, not someone who is part of the system,โ€ Sanders said of former Goldman Sachs counsel Jay

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