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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) today introduced legislation that would phase out private security contractors in war zones.  This legislation recognizes that the United States increasingly has relied on private contractors to wage our wars, wasting taxpayer money, damaging military morale and hurting our reputation around the world. “The American people have always prided themselves on the

Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement after President Barack Obama delivered a prime-time speech and congressional leaders offered competing deficit-reduction proposals: “The issue with regard to deficit reduction is pretty clear. Either we make devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education and the needs of working families or we ask the wealthiest people in our country and the largest corporations, most of

Vermont U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I) and Patrick Leahy (D) on Tuesday introduced legislation to charter a competitive grant program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to promote Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Vermont is a leader in the successful movement that directly links consumers with the farmers who grow their food. Since the concept first took hold 20 years ago there are now thousands of

Sen. Bernie Sanders said today that Congress should address a serious backlog of transportation projects in Vermont and around the nation. Sanders is a member of the Senate public works committee that held a hearing on reauthorizing transportation programs. “In my view, we should be creating millions of decent-paying jobs rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure and making our economy more competitive,” Sanders said. He called for

The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week

Sen. Bernie Sanders today congratulated Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on their very significant victory in negotiating a deficit-reduction plan which achieves their long-term goal of dismantling every major social program relevant to working families. The so-called Gang of Six plan that the Republican senators negotiated calls for massive cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and