‘Obscene,’ Says Sanders After CBO Reports Richest 1% Now Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealth
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
Sanders Blasts GOP for Opposing Resolution Warning Against Military Coup in Brazil
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
Sanders blocks proposal to force rail unions to accept labor deal
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
Sanders Calls State of US Health Care an “International Embarrassment”
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
Sanders vows to oppose controversial Schumer-Manchin side deal
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
Sanders, Welch call for severance pay for laid-off LandAir workers
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.
