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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

By: Shaun Robinson; VTDigger For our members of Congress representing Vermont and Massachusetts are calling on Corbel Capital Partners — which owns LandAir, the Williston-based trucking company that filed for bankruptcy in July — to provide severance pay to laid-off employees. In a letter Friday to Corbel’s managing partner and CEO, Jeffrey Schwartz, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; U.S. Rep.