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By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “It is important for the people of Brazil to know we’re on their side, on the side of democracy,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “With passage of this resolution, we are sending that message.” With just four days to go until the first round of Brazil’s presidential contest, a pair of U.S. senators on Wednesday hailed the

By: Brett Wilkins; Common Dreams “In the richest country on Earth, the time is long overdue for us to create a government and an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders reacted Wednesday to new government figures showing the wealthiest 1% of Americans now owns over one-third of the country’s wealth by reasserting

By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “I suspect that my Republican colleagues do not want to antagonize Trump,” the Vermont senator said. “That tells us a little bit about the state of democracy in this country and the Republican Party.” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday said he has not been able to get a single Senate Republican to support his resolution

By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday blocked a Republican request to force railroad workers and companies to accept the recommendations of a nonpartisan panel to avoid a strike that would impact millions of Americans.   Sanders stood up on the floor to block the speedy approval of the resolution — introduced by Senate Health, Education, Labor and

By: Sharon Zhang; Truthout Following the release of a recent poll finding that Americans have very little faith in the quality of the U.S. health care system, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to once again call for the passage of Medicare for All. “While it is not discussed much in the corporate media or

By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday blasted the side deal that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) struck earlier this summer to pass a controversial proposal to make it easier to develop fossil fuel-based energy projects. Schumer told reporters Wednesday that he plans to attach Manchin’s permitting reform bill to the stopgap spending measure that needs