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Sen. Bernie Sanders said today that Congress should address a serious backlog of transportation projects in Vermont and around the nation. Sanders is a member of the Senate public works committee that held a hearing on reauthorizing transportation programs. “In my view, we should be creating millions of decent-paying jobs rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure and making our economy more competitive,” Sanders said. He called for

The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week

Sen. Bernie Sanders today congratulated Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on their very significant victory in negotiating a deficit-reduction plan which achieves their long-term goal of dismantling every major social program relevant to working families. The so-called Gang of Six plan that the Republican senators negotiated calls for massive cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on a deficit-reduction proposal by a group of senators called the Gang of Six: “While all of the details from the so-called Gang of Six proposals are not yet clear, what is apparent is that the plan would result in devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and many other programs that are of vital importance

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after a federal court denied Entergy Corp.’s bid for a temporary injunction to keep Vermont Yankee open while a legal fight plays out over the state’s effort to close the nuclear power plant: “The ruling is good news for the people of Vermont. The law is very clear that Vermont has the right to close

WASHINGTON, July 12 – As high-stakes deficit talks resumed today at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) prodded President Barack Obama to keep his 2008 campaign promise not to cut Social Security. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders said the president must keep faith with the vast majority of Americans who want him to stand up to right-wing Republicans