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How to respond to "Bernie Sanders hasn't really done anything"

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  • Getting Tough On Child Labor (July 2001): A Sanders amendment to the general appropriations bill prohibited the importation of goods made with child labor.

  • Increasing Funding for Heating for the Poor (September 2004): Sanders won a $22 million increase for the low-income home energy assistance program and related weatherization assistance program.

  • Fighting Corporate Welfare and Protecting Against Nuclear Disasters (June 2005): A Sanders amendment brought together a bipartisan coalition that outnumbered a bipartisan coalition on the other side to successfully prohibit the Export-Import Bank from providing loans for nuclear projects in China.

  • Daily Kos also reminds us that when Sanders (who had applied for conscientious objector status) was chair of the Veterans committee, he worked with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), to overhaul the Veterans Administration. Sanders' work was highly praised by McCain in an interview with National Journal and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) said the bill would never have passed without Sanders' influence.

    Hillary's just got a bad case of Bern out.

    And hopefully the rest of us will soon have a case of "Bern in."

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    Correction 02.27.20 @ 9:33 am EST: Please note that the list of accomplishments cited from Occasional Planet originally stated

    • Former professor of political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College."

    However, Sanders taught sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, (not political science), according to the Senior Director of Media Relations at Hamilton College, Vige Barrie.

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