Sanders Secures New Staff for All Three Social Security Field Offices in Vermont

WASHINGTON, June 27 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that Vermont will receive five new Social Security staffers at the agencyโ€™s three field offices in Burlington, Montpelier and Rutland. Since 2010, Vermont has lost almost a quarter of its Social Security field office staff because of national cuts to Social Securityโ€™s operating budget. Sanders noted that Vermont had the

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Sanders Statement on Muslim Ban Ruling

WASHINGTON, June 26 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trumpโ€™s travel ban on several mostly-Muslim nations: “The Supreme Court today sided with fear, racism and xenophobia and against the American ideals of religious freedom and tolerance. The Trump administrationโ€™s travel ban was never about keeping America safe. We need only

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Senate Passes Sanders Amendment to Fund Williston Solar Regional Testing Center

WASHINGTON, June 25 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that the โ€œminibusโ€ appropriations bill that passed the Senate Monday by a 86-5 vote includes a Sanders-authored amendment to provide $4 million in federal funding to continue operations of the Vermont Regional Test Center (RTC) dedicated to researching solar technologies.  The Vermont RTC, located on land owned by GlobalFoundaries in Williston,

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Sanders Urges Pompeo to Address Detention of Saudi Activists

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 22 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and five of his Senate colleagues urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a letter to address the detention of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia. At least three women’s rights activists and three men associated with the women’s rights movement are currently detained, and four other women’s rights activists have

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U.N. Ambassador Dismisses Report on Extreme Poverty in America in Letter to Sanders

WASHINGTON, June 21 โ€“ย In a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) following hisย callย for the Trump administration to uphold international human rights treaty obligations and present Congress with a plan to alleviate poverty, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed a non-partisan U.N. report on extreme poverty in America as โ€œpolitically motivatedโ€ and โ€œmisleading.โ€ โ€œIt is patently ridiculous for the United Nations

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Sanders Statement on Trump Family Separation Executive Order

WASHINGTON, June 20 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing his administration’s policy of separating families at the southern border: “President Trumpโ€™s executive order merely replaces one inhumane act with another. In response to the overwhelming public outrage at his administrationโ€™s policy of tearing children away from their parents

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