News & Updates
FCC May Give Murdoch a Very Merry Christmas (Huffington Post)
December 10, 2012
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Until now, this hasn’t been the best year for media mogul Rupert Murdoch. For one, none of the Republicans who’d been on the payroll of his Fox News Channel — not Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin — became this year’s GOP nominee for [...]
We can make the system more cost effective, but we can do that without cutting benefits to Medicare and Medicaid (The New York Times).
Watch Bernie’s interview with the New York Times where he discusses the end-of-year fiscal showdown.
“Once you start destroying the universality of a program you end up, over a period of time, making it into a welfare program.”
The President and Democrats have got to hold firm (MSNBC).
Watch Bernie and Ed Schultz discuss Mitch McConnell filibustering his own bill as well as the end of year fiscal showdown between Democrats and Republicans.
“At a time of dysfunctionality in the Senate, and all kinds of absurdity, this probably takes the cake when you filibuster your own proposal.”
Senators warn FCC not to relax media ownership rules (The Hill)
December 7, 2012
By Brendan Sasso Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) blasted a Federal Communications Commission proposal to relax media ownership restrictions at a press conference on Thursday. “We cannot live in a vibrant democracy unless people get divergent sources of information,” Sanders said. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski circulated a proposal with his fellow commissioners [...]
Watch Bernie and Bill Moyers
Bernie recently appeared on PBS’s “Moyers & Company” to discuss his opposition to the proposed FCC rule change which would allow media conglomerates to dominate broadcast and print media.
Watch the interview in its entirety here, in which Bernie discusses the need to maintain a diversity of media ownership in order to preserve the strength of our democracy.
The Secret of Bernie Sanders’s Success (The Nation.)
December 6, 2012
By John Nichols “We will not accept cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid,” declared US Senator Bernie Sanders Monday night, at The Nation Institute dinner where the independent senator from Vermont was cheered for his absolute defense of programs that he argues must not be sacrificed to the austerity demands of those who would [...]
Republicans are way, way out of touch. (MSNBC)
December 4, 2012
Watch Bernie and Rev. Al Sharpton discuss the end-of-year fiscal showdown on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation.
“If they win this debate…we’re talking about major cuts for disabled veterans. We’re going to maintain low tax rates for billionaires and we’re going to cut benefits for disabled vets. Who in America thinks that makes any sense?”
The American people are very clear — do not cut Social Security, do not cut Medicare, do not cut Medicaid (CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer)
November 30, 2012
“At a time when the middle class is disappearing and the people on top are doing phenomenally well…the wealthy are going to have to pay their fair share of taxes.”
News Update: Defending Working Families
November 19, 2012
Crunch time is coming in terms of the fiscal cliff and deficit reduction. At a time when the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well, while the middle class is disappearing, we must not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in this country. Elections have consequences. The American people have spoken.
Sanders, Welch: Congress unlikely to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’ (Burlington Free Press)
November 13, 2012
By Sam Hemingway Two members of Vermont’s congressional delegation signaled Monday that Congress is unlikely to find a solution to the nation’s $16 trillion deficit in time to avoid the Dec. 31 “fiscal cliff” deadline. Instead, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said in separate news conferences in Burlington that a resolution [...]
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- 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