Sanders, Murray Announce $15 Minimum Wage Bill

WASHINGTON, April 26 – Addressing hundreds of low-wage workers outside the Capitol, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced legislation Wednesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. “For the last 10 years, Congress, giving tax breaks to the rich, has forgotten to raise the minimum wage. We are here to

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Sanders Statement on U.S. Missile Strike in Syria

WASHINGTON, April 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the United States carried out a missile strike in Syria in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack this week: “In a world of vicious dictators, Syria’s Bashar Assad tops the list as a dictator who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own citizens to

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Sanders Statement on Republicans’ Use of ‘Nuclear Option’

WASHINGTON, April 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after Senate Republicans voted to change Senate rules to allow the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch and all other Supreme Court justices by simple-majority vote: “I am deeply disappointed that Republicans changed the rules so that they could push through their nominee with fewer than 60 votes.

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College for All Act Introduced

WASHINGTON, April 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced legislation Monday to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for working families and to significantly reduce student debt. “Higher education in America should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,” Sanders said. “If we are to succeed in a highly competitive global

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Senate Budget Panel Must Hold Hearings on Trump’s ‘Obscene’ Budget, Sanders Says

WASHINGTON, March 28 – Faulting an “unprecedented break with past practice,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Senate Budget Committee ranking member, on Tuesday called on the panel’s chairman to schedule public hearings on President Donald Trump’s “morally obscene” budget blueprint. Sanders said the president’s proposal “includes unacceptably painful cuts to programs that senior citizens, children, persons with disabilities and working people

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