By Michael Arria / Mondoweiss Last week Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he had introduced legislation to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel. The Joint Resolutions of…
"American workers should not be paying more in federal income taxes, in a given year, than profitable companies like Target, Amazon, and T-Mobile," said the senator.
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Lawmakers from both parties overwhelmingly thwarted an effort by the progressive Vermont senator to bring some accountability to how U.S.-supplied weapons are being used by Israeli forces.
"I do not believe that we should give the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government an additional $10.1 billion with no strings attached."
If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question
By Bernie Sanders / CounterPunch We are living in a moment where corporate America and the 1% have more economic and political power than they have ever had in the…
Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is "an idea that we should explore," said the senator.
The senator asked if it is "morally acceptable that tens of thousands of people die each year in this country because they cannot afford the medicine their doctors prescribe, while…
By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described “democratic socialist” from a…
The White House was asking senators to vote against the resolution and threatened Biden would veto the bill.
"We cannot provide billions of dollars in new tax breaks to the very same fossil fuel companies that are currently destroying the planet."
“I continue to support efforts to free him,” Sanders said of Leonard Peltier, 77-year-old Indigenous rights activist, in a letter obtained by HuffPost.
Writing to the CEOs of two private equity firms, the senators decried the "blatant mistreatment" of miners, including forced 12-hour shifts and seven-day workweeks.
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" asked Sen.…
