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Friday, November 13, 2009
Health Care for All Americans (VIDEO)
We are in a very interesting moment. I would hope from the grassroots of America people would tell Congress to do the right thing on this terribly important issue.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Exist
(11 comments) Senator Sanders Unfiltered is a weekly web program produced by Brave New Films.

Friday, October 30, 2009
The Environment and the Economy
(3 comments) Good environmental policy is good economic policy. We are not only helping to save the planet in terms of global warming, we are also moving to get this country out of the economic crisis that we are in right now. Are we making some progress? We really are.

Friday, October 23, 2009
Unfiltered: Health Care Reform
(5 comments) One of the reasons that I am a strong proponent of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all proposal is that it is much less complicated than what we are going to end up with in Congress.

Friday, October 16, 2009
The Dow and the Down and Out
(4 comments) While markets surged past 10,000, the official unemployment rate stood near 10 percent. The United States is in a unique historical position. People on top are doing extraordinarily well, but in the real world the middle class is collapsing.

Friday, October 9, 2009
War and Peace
President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the non-Western world and stress diplomacy. Americans should be proud that we have a president who is restoring respect for our country around the globe. This well-deserved prize is an inspiration for the president and for rest of us to do some really hard thinking about how we create a more peaceful and just world.

Friday, October 2, 2009
Michael Moore & Me
(1 comments) What we have seen in this country is an unfettered type of cowboy capitalism, and the result of that has been, that the people on top have made out like bandits and many of them are bandits.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Economic Crisis: One Year Later
Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses the collapse of the middle class, who is responsible & his collaboration with an unlikely congressman,Ron Paul, to try to do something about it.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Farewell Senator (VIDEO)
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history. He will also be remembered, by those who knew him, as an extremely warm and caring human being whose public service was a brilliant reflection of his love and devotion to his country, his friends and his family.

Friday, August 21, 2009
Healthcare Reform 101
At town hall meetings I've hosted in Vermont we proved something that makes us proud. We live in a state where people can have different points of view, yet we can listen to each other and treat each other with respect. In Vermont, there are many others like me who think the best way to solve the health care crisis (and save $400 billion a year in the process) ...

Friday, August 14, 2009
Health Care Town Meetings
(1 comments) Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value. It simply suggests fear of ideas that you may not be familiar with or disagree with.

Monday, August 10, 2009
Senator Sanders Unfiltered: My New Online Show from Brave New Films
(1 comments) This is an exciting new step in using the Internet to shorten the distance between the public and its elected officials. I'm proud to be part of getting it underway.

Thursday, July 23, 2009
We Need an Energy Revolution
(23 comments) What we are talking about is an energy revolution that leads us toward energy independence, the cessation of support for foreign dictatorships and the ability to avoid Mideast wars fought over oil.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America
(6 comments) I sent an email to my Senate mailing list requesting support for a single-payer Medicare-for-All system, and for personal stories describing the problems people are having with their health care coverage. Within a few weeks, some 40,000 people signed the single-payer petition and more than 4,000 sent in their personal stories. I collected some of the letters in a booklet,"The Health Care Crisis: Letters from V.t and America."

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry
(7 comments) Real health care reform must address the billions of dollars in fraud and abuse that comes from the major corporations in the health care industry.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Health Care for All Americans -- Sign the Petition
(1 comments) The time is now for our nation to address the most profound moral and economic issue we face. The time is now for our country to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide cost-effective, comprehensive quality health care to every man, woman and child in our country. The time is now to take on the powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and pass a single-payer health care program.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege
(22 comments) Let's be clear. Our health care system is disintegrating. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. At a time when 60 million people, including many with insurance, do not have access to a medical home, more than 18,000 Americans die every year from preventable illnesses because they do not get to the doctor when they should.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Socialist Successes
(255 comments) I doubt that there are any other socialists, let alone 17 more, in all of the Congress. I also respectfully doubt that Spencer Bachus understands much about democratic socialism. I hope this is an opportunity to shed some light on a viewpoint that deserves more attention throughout America and in our capital.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
A Growing Outrage
(9 comments) If the bonus recipients want to argue that they had some contractual right to the money, I say let them go to court. Let them explain to a judge and jury why they deserve these bonuses after they helped create the largest financial crisis in our nation's history and after they turned to taxpayers to keep the company from collapsing.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Stop Wall Street Loan-Sharking
(19 comments) Let's be clear. What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

Friday, January 30, 2009
Sanders Proposes Investigation Into the Financial Crisis
(2 comments) Senator Bernie Sanders called for a major investigation into what caused the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Senator Bernie Sanders: Where Do We Go from Here?
(9 comments) The next few months will be a pivotal period in the history of the United States and for much of the world. The Bush administration, perhaps the most reactionary and incompetent that our country has ever seen, is leaving office after eight disastrous years. President Barack Obama and an increased Democratic majority take power amidst the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Navy Sinks Billions into Spare Parts
(3 comments) The U.S. today has a $10.6 trillion national debt and huge unmet needs in such areas as health care, education, infrastructure and sustainable energy. Unfortunately, in the midst of all of this the Pentagon, with a greatly expanded budget of $540 billion, continues to waste billions every year.

Friday, November 7, 2008
The Road to Economic Recovery
(3 comments) In these very difficult economic conditions, doing nothing is not an option. When the Senate reconvenes of November 17th, I intend to fight for an economic recovery program that is significant enough in size and scope to respond to the major economic crisis this country now faces.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Now is the Time
(15 comments) When Congress reconvenes, it is clear to me that it must pass a massive "Rebuild America" program in order to address the looming economic crisis. If we can put up $700 billion to rescue bankers from their irresponsible decisions, we must make a major investment putting millions of Americans to work rebuilding our country.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Sanders Amendment: Make Wall Street Pay for Bailout
The Senate today will debate an amendment by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to impose a surtax on the wealthiest Americans to pay for a $700 billion emergency bailout of Wall Street.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Don't Make Working People Bail Out Wall Street
(4 comments) This country faces many serious problems in the financial market, in the stock market, in our economy. We must act, but we must act in a way that improves the situation. We can do better than the legislation now before Congress. This bill does not effectively address the issue of what the taxpayers of our country will actually own after they invest hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic assets.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Middle Class Must Not Be Forced to Bail Out Wall Street Greed
(18 comments) This proposal as presented is an unacceptable attempt to force middle income families (and our children) to pick up the cost of fixing the horrendous economic mess that is the product of the Bush Administration's deregulatory fever and Wall Street's insatiable greed. If the potential danger to our economy was not so dire, this blatant effort to essentially transfer $700 billion up the income ladder to those at the top would b

Friday, September 19, 2008
Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays?
(14 comments) The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the rich, unfettered free trade and the wholesale deregulation of commerce, have resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This Election is Not a Soap Opera or a Football Game: It is About the Future of Our Country
(34 comments) An election is not a soap opera which deals with the trials and tribulations of the candidates and their family members. Election coverage must not descend into becoming a pre-game football show, one which deals only with "who's going to win" polling data and never-ending tactical discussions of "what the candidate must do" to win this or that state.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Health Care for All
(3 comments) Our health care system is deteriorating. There are now 47 million people who have no health insurance, 8 million more than when President Bush took office. Millions more are uninsured. Costs are soaring. The result is not only widespread human tragedy but major economic problems.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
From Staffer to Contractor: Stopping the Pentagon's Revolving Door
(6 comments) As Congress prepares to consider the annual Department of Defense authorization bill and other military spending legislation totaling more than $700 billion, the need for more aggressive scrutiny is abundantly clear. A good place to start would be by slowing down the "revolving door" that allows high level Pentagon bureaucrats and military officers to go to work for major defense contractors.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Bernie Sanders on The Colbert Report
(1 comments) Vermont's independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will be a guest Monday night on The Colbert Report. Sanders said, "I've been on the O'Reilly show a couple of times, so I don't think this can be any worse than that. In fact, it should be a lot of fun."

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Harvest of Shame
In my view, the American consumer does not want the tomatoes they eat to be picked by workers who are grossly mistreated, underpaid, and in some case even kept in chains. This must not happen in the United States of America in 2008.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Bernie Sanders: The Finnish Success Story
(14 comments) Why did I ask the Ambassador from Finland to come to Vermont to talk a little bit about his country? The answer is pretty simple. We as a state and nation should do our very best to learn as much as possible about the best kind of economic and social models that exist throughout the world and, where these models make sense, we should see how we can adopt them to this state and this country. This is especially true today.

Friday, March 7, 2008
Changing our National Priorities
(16 comments) We have a moral responsibility to put children ahead of millionaires and billionaires. That is why, during the Senate's consideration of the budget resolution, I will offer an amendment to restore the top income tax bracket to 39.6 percent for households earning more than $1 million a year.

Friday, October 26, 2007
Why I Will Vote "No" on Mukasey
(12 comments) The attorney general of the United States must be a defender of our constitutional rights. Because President Bush thinks he can do whatever he wants to do in the name of fighting terrorism, we need an attorney general who can explain to the president what the Constitution of this country is all about. That is why I will be voting against his nomination.

Monday, September 3, 2007
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Why He Opposes the Nussle Appointment as OMB Director
(5 comments) Personally, I like Jim Nussle. We came to Washington together and I worked with him for 16 years in the House of Representatives. He's smart. He is passionate. Now, some of my colleagues may say ask, well if you like Mr. Nussle, and you believe that he is smart and passionate, why are you so opposed to his nomination? That is a very fair question. Let me give you an answer.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
‘Open Access’ Essential To Media Reform
Media ownership in this country is facing the largest crisis of ownership since the era of William Randolph Hearst’s yellow journalism.