Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Joined April 2009
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Jun 12
I am proud to stand in solidarity with unionizing BAE Systems shipyard workers in Jacksonville, FL.
Their campaign is more important than ever after the tragic preventable death of one of their coworkers, Anthony Elrod.
BAE must respect their constitutional right to unionize.
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Jun 12
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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Jun 11
While Pentagon spending hit $1 trillion last year, defense contractor CEOs got a raise:
General Dynamics CEO: $25.9M
Northrop Grumman CEO: $25.3M
RTX (Raytheon) CEO: $24.8M
Boeing CEO: $23.5M
Lockheed Martin CEO: $23.4M
This is the military-industrial complex.
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Jun 10
Congress must say no to a bloated military budget.
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Jun 10
We are engaged in a struggle against the extraordinary greed of oligarchs.
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It's absolutely unacceptable that Prime Healthcare chose to illegally fire 6 pro-union nurses in Chicago instead of working with them to improve the health and safety of patients at St. Mary of Nazareth.
I say to Prime Healthcare: End your union busting. Reinstate these nurses.
Chicago nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth are rallying today.
@_PrimeHealth: We won’t be intimidated by your anti-union crackdowns. We’re demanding you reinstate the nurses you illegally fired. We won’t stop fighting to improve working conditions and patient care! ✊
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In tiny Albania, over a hundred thousand people have been in the streets against an environmentally disastrous luxury resort planned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Qatari billionaire partners.
This is what global oligarchy looks like — and the people are saying NO.
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In the richest country on earth, 20% of our seniors should not be forced to live on $15,000 a year or less.
We must lift the cap on taxable income, increase Social Security benefits, and strengthen Social Security's solvency for generations to come.
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Is Congress doing anything to help the millions of workers who could lose their jobs to AI and robotics? No.
They're intimidated by the hundreds of millions the AI industry is pouring into super PACs.
We must ban super PACs and crack down on corruption.
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Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.
That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.
Not gonna happen!
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This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues.
The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.
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Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.
Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.
Unimaginable cruelty.
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AI oligarchs have stolen the creative work of millions of people — writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens.
It’s time for us to reclaim it.
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Noah Wyle is right: We need Medicare for All.
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In America today, we rank 34th out of 35 countries in childhood poverty and millions of children are food insecure.
Maybe, just maybe, my Republican colleagues would consider holding a single hearing about how we improve the lives of American kids.
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Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, gutted USAID, which supports some of the poorest people in the world.
Now there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo, which USAID could have helped prevent or slow.
When you dismantle the systems that stop deadly diseases, people needlessly die.
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Artificial Intelligence is built on the creative work of millions of writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary people. That work has been stolen by Big Tech oligarchs.
Now's the time to reclaim it and ensure AI works for ALL, not just the few.
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Trump believes climate change is a “hoax,” and he and his Big Oil friends want more fossil fuel and carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, the planet is warming at dangerous levels and Europe is facing a record-breaking heatwave.
We must break our fossil fuel addiction & save the planet.
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I'll be introducing the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, a bill giving the public a direct stake to determine AI's future.
When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth. x.com/i/broadcasts/1qxoNNPjL…
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