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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 – The Senate tonight passed and sent to President Barack Obama a budget that averts another government shutdown, eases sharp spending cuts known as sequestration and spares Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from proposed cuts in benefits. In what he called a difficult decision, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted with the 64 – 36 majority to pass

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted today to advance a House-passed budget agreement that averts another government shutdown and rejects proposals to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. “This was a difficult vote for me. The bill achieves the bare minimum that Americans expect of Congress but does not address the most important problems that our

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after a federal judge declared that the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records by the National Security Agency is likely to violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and probably is not effective in fighting terrorism: “I applaud the D.C. District Court’s ruling today on the NSA surveillance

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 – The Department of Veterans Affairs has reduced a disability claims backlog but more work remains to be done, according to testimony today before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the committee chairman, cited “good news about significant progress” in addressing “one of the major challenges confronting the VA.” He spoke at the

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said widespread grassroots opposition to cuts in Social Security benefits and Medicare coverage kept congressional budget negotiators from cutting the programs in a two-year agreement outlined yesterday.  “This is good news for millions of Americans who have earned their Social Security benefits and their Medicare health care coverage,” said Sanders, a member

BURLINGTON, Vt., Dec. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela: “Nelson Mandela was one of the outstanding leaders of the 20th century. I am deeply saddened by his passing. In his native South Africa, he was a powerful force for good in the struggle to dismantle the terrible