Sanders: Democrats will pass ‘massive stimulus bill’ if party flips the Senate

By: The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged Thursday that Democrats will pass a huge coronavirus relief package if they win the Senate in next month’s elections. “If the Democrats gain control of the Senate, the first order of business will be a massive stimulus bill to protect desperate working people throughout this country,” Sanders said on Hill.TV’s “Rising.” The remarks come as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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Bernie Sanders Applauds People of Bolivia for ‘Year-Long Fight to Restore Democracy’ in Wake of Military Coup

Common Dreams; Jake Johnson Following socialist candidate Luis Arce’s resounding victory in Bolivia’s high-stakes and closely watched presidential election, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday applauded the people of the South American nation for persisting in their “difficult, year-long fight to restore democracy” in the wake of last year’s military coup that ousted Evo Morales and installed a vicious right-wing

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Leahy and Sanders Seek Swift Release of LIHEAP Heating help

By: Vermont Business Magazine With winter around the corner and heating costs projected to increase this season, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 senators in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release funds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as swiftly and at the highest

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Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren demand answers from Amazon over employee surveillance allegations

By: Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News A coalition of Democratic senators sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, pressing the company for answers over allegations that it “unethically” tracks and monitors its employees to suppress efforts to form a union. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) implored Bezos to explain recent reports that

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Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders Urge Stimulus Bill Focus Over Amy Coney Barrett Hearings

By: Jacob Jarvis; Newsweek Several senators have suggested lawmakers should be focused on passing a stimulus bill as opposed to facilitating Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. These hearings into President Donald Trump‘s SCOTUS pick will begin Monday, amid a continued impasse over a further relief package to be enacted amid the COVID-19 crisis. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

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