Sanders Statement on Sen. Barbara Boxer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced that she will not seek re-election in 2016: “Sen. Boxer is one of the great senators of our time and I am sorry that this will be her last session in Congress. She has played an especially vital role in protecting

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Sanders Welcomes Relief for New Homebuyers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed President Barack Obama’s announcement today that the Federal Housing Administration will cut mortgage-insurance premiums as part of an effort to expand opportunities for first-time homebuyers. Annual fees the agency charges to guarantee mortgages will be cut by 0.5 percentage points from the current rate of 1.35 percent. Sanders and 17 other

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Sanders Contrasts U.S. Trade Secrecy to EU Transparency

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today challenged the trade representative for the United States to follow the example of the European Union and stop hiding details of a proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. “It is time for American trade negotiators to stop operating in the shadows and come clean with details of an agreement that would

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Sanders Calls ‘Dynamic Scoring’ a Gimmick

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today blasted a proposed new House rule that would make the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation use a discredited notion that today’s Republicans call “dynamic scoring” but President George H.W. Bush labeled “voodoo economics.”  “The Republicans have hatched a plan to

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