WASHINGTON, June 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning regarding legislation that would expand U.S. sanctions against Iran. See below for a full transcript. “Mr. President, I am strongly supportive of adding sanctions against Russia to the bill that is scheduled to come up this afternoon. Russia, as I think we all know,
WASHINGTON, June 7 – President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan would be a huge giveaway to Wall Street, foreign governments and billionaires at the expense of working families, according to a new report prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Senate Budget Committee’s ranking member. “Under Trump’s proposal, billionaires on Wall Street, wealthy campaign contributors and even foreign governments would receive hundreds
LONDON, June 1 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement: “President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement is an abdication of American leadership and an international disgrace. At this moment, when climate change is already causing devastating harm
BURLINGTON, Vt., May 26 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and a member of the Senate health committee, detailed the harm President Donald Trump’s budget and the Republicans’ “health care” legislation would have on Vermonters. “Trump’s budget is immoral,” Sanders said. “It would directly harm tens of thousands of Vermonters,
WASHINGTON, May 25 – Days after President Donald Trump released a budget that would slash support for working families, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by 28 of their colleagues in the Senate, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced
WASHINGTON, May 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made the following statement at a press conference Wednesday after the Congressional Budget Office released its score of the American Health Care Act: “We can call this legislation whatever we want—you can call it a ‘destroy health care’ bill. You can call it a ‘tax break for the rich’ bill. But we
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