News & Updates
Fiscal cliff: What’s next? (Times Argus)
January 8, 2013
By U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) The so-called fiscal cliff legislation signed into law by President Obama is not a good bill. But it was better than the alternative, which is why I voted for it. The alternative — doing nothing — would have thrown this country back into a recession with nearly $4 trillion [...]
Bad rule, bad tactics from the FCC (The Boston Globe)
January 7, 2013
By U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) As Americans across the nation were celebrating the holidays, a federal agency was tying a bow on a gift for big media conglomerates. To avoid public scrutiny, the Federal Communications Commission used the holiday lull to propose rule changes that would allow greater media consolidation in big cities. A [...]
No, Mr. President, you’re not going to cut Social Security. (MSNBC)
Watch Bernie & Ed Schultz discuss attempts to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid & disabled veterans’ benefits.
“What we are talking about Ed, and you made this point, we are not talking about financial issues. We are talking about ideology. What the Republicans want to do is destroy the social safety net that has existed in this country since the 1930s.”
Andrea Mitchell interviews Senator Bernie Sanders (MSNBC)
“When my Republican colleagues…talk about spending cuts, let’s be clear what they’re talking about. They’re talking about major cuts in Social Security for people who are trying to survive on $15K, $16K a year in Social Security. They’re talking about cuts for disabled veterans, for people with disabilities, cuts in Medicare, cuts in Medicaid, cuts in education, cuts in nutrition.”
Sanders voices strong opposition to cutting Social Security (MSNBC)
December 21, 2012
Watch Bernie’s recent interview with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz regarding the end-of-year fiscal showdown and possible cuts to Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits.
“The vast majority of the American people are saying you do not balance the budget on the elderly…. The wealthiest people and the large corporations who are doing phenomenally well are going to have to start paying their fair share of taxes.”
The Progressive Honor Roll of 2012 (The Nation.)
December 20, 2012
By John Nichols The Nation’s annual Most Valuable Progressives Honor Roll has been going strong for the better part of a decade, and its alumni are moving up. Elizabeth Warren is now a senator-elect. Keith Ellison and Raúl Grijalva co-chair the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Two of our most valuable state legislators were elected to Congress [...]
Sanders and vet groups warn against cuts to disability benefits (The Washington Post)
By Steve Vogel The incoming chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, joined by the leaders of a number of veteran groups, attacked proposals that would cut disability benefits for veterans as part of a budget deal during a news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill. “We must do deficit reduction, but not by cutting programs [...]
FCC rule change would favor big media (Politico)
By Senator Bernie Sanders and Michael Copps A cornerstone of American democracy is a free and open press providing diverse viewpoints. As Thomas Jefferson said in 1823, “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted to be freely expressed.” In America today, however, [...]
In the Fiscal Debate, an Unvarnished Voice for Shielding Benefits (The New York Times)
December 13, 2012
WASHINGTON — When President Obama cut a deal with Congressional Republicans in December 2010 to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, Senator Bernard Sanders, the brusque Vermont independent who calls himself a socialist, decided it was time for a protest.
Sanders to lead Veterans Affairs Committee: Vermont independent says priority is stopping benefit cuts for disabled veterans (Burlington Free Press)
By Nicole Gaudiano WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders was chosen to lead the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee next Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Wednesday. The Vermont independent said his first priority is to stop a proposal that would slash benefits for disabled veterans. The largest cuts would affect young, permanently disabled veterans who [...]
Post Tags
Afghanistan
Agriculture
Campaign Finance Reform
Citizens United
Deficit Reduction
Dental Care
Economy
Education
Energy
Environment
Federal Reserve
Financial Reform
Foreign Policy
Fraud
Health Care
Income Inequality
Iraq
Jobs
Keystone XL
LIHEAP
Marriage Equality
Medicare
Middle Class
National Security
Nuclear Power
Occupy Wall Street
Oil
Older Americans Act
OpEd
Postal Service
Poverty
Prescription Drugs
President Obama
Social Security
Solar Power
Sustainable Energy
Taxes
Transparency
Transportation
Tropical Storm Irene
Unemployment
Vermont
Veterans
Wall Street
Women
- Pew Research study shows "A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%": http://t.co/B1x3G2Z0gM
- Check out the op-ed The Soul of America by @FriendsofBernie in @HuffingtonPost regarding #fiscalcliff and #debtceiling http://t.co/6I505g7W