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Sept. 1, 2022 Tweet - "The threats to our democracy could not be clearer, and we must act boldly to protect it." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aug. 19, 2022 Rep. Welch Votes to Pass Historic Legislation to Fight Climate Change, Lower Health Care Costs, and Cut Household Expenses Sen. Peter Welch
Aug. 11, 2022 Tweet - "The United States should stand for democracy and support free and fair elections. To that end, we must make absolutely clear that it will not support any government that comes to power in Brazil through undemocratic means." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aug. 10, 2022 Tweet - "The "Inflation Reduction Act" is a very small step forward. Standing together we can do better. We must do better. Tune in to hear what I said on the Senate floor this weekend." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aug. 7, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Statement on Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aug. 7, 2022 Tweet - "Today the Inflation Reduction Act passed the Senate 51-50. In my view, this legislation goes nowhere near far enough for working families, but it does begin to address the existential crisis of climate change. It's an important step forward and I was happy to support it." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Aug. 2, 2022 Tweet - "The 700-page so-called Inflation Reduction Act, after months of secret negotiations, became public late last week. Now is the time for every member of the Senate to study this bill thoroughly and to come up with amendments and suggestions as to how we can improve it." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 26, 2022 Letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Miller, Schneider, Colleagues Urge Administration to Ensure Financial Certainty, Protect Hospitals from Economic Impacts of COVID-19, Inflation Sen. Peter Welch, ...
July 23, 2022 Tweet - "Republicans talk about the cost of a Green New Deal. Really? If left unchecked, climate change, according to Deloitte, could cost the global economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years. Droughts, floods, extreme weather are expensive. Inaction is not a moral or economic option." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 22, 2022 Tweet - "Pharma is spending millions to defeat a very modest drug pricing bill. Intel is spending millions to get a $20 billion handout. Joe Manchin, who is blocking climate action, is the major recipient of fossil fuel campaign contributions. This is how a corrupt political system works." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 20, 2022 Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States - Urging Climate Emergency Declaration Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 18, 2022 Tweet - "Sen. Manchin is intentionally sabotaging the President's agenda, what the American people want, and what the majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. He is not interested in representing the needs of the working class of this country." Sen. Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2022 LARSON, SANDERS CALL FOR STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SECURITY AFTER GAO REPORT SERIES SHOWS HARMFUL DELAYS IN DISABILITY APPEALS Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
July 13, 2022 Letter to Robert Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration - Reps. Barragán and DeLauro Lead Colleagues in Call to FDA to Appoint and Empower a Deputy Commissioner for Foods Sen. Peter Welch, ...
July 13, 2022 Tweet - "I'll be LIVE on the floor of the Senate at 1:30pm ET to discuss why, at a time of massive wealth and income inequality, now is not the time for Congress to hand a $53 billion blank check to the microchip industry." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 30, 2022 Tweet - "President Biden is absolutely right. Senate Democrats must end the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion NOW. If you allow the broken rules of the Senate to stand in the way of guaranteeing basic rights for our people, you don't really stand for those rights." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 24, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Calls for End of Filibuster to Codify Right to Abortion Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 24, 2022 Rep. Welch's Statement on the Supreme Court's Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Sen. Peter Welch
June 24, 2022 Tweet - "Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 23, 2022 Tweet - "In 2020, 45,000 Americans died from gun-related injuries. We've recently seen horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas. The Supreme Court's response: loosen gun safety laws. Six justices are way out of touch with reality." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 16, 2022 Tweet - "The Democratic Party cannot continue to ignore the needs of the working class of our country and expect to retain majority control in the US House and US Senate. It's time to show which side we're on. It's time to start voting." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 14, 2022 Tweet - "Right now, there are 1,500 paid lobbyists from both parties in Washington working overtime to make sure we don't represent our constituents who are dying and are sick and tired of paying outrageous prices for prescription drugs. What a disgrace." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 14, 2022 Letter to Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Robert Santos, Director of the US Census Bureau - Chairwoman Maloney, Rep. Tlaib, and Committee Democrats Push to Include the "Middle Eastern or North African" Response Category in U.S. Census, Federal Data Sen. Peter Welch, ...
June 10, 2022 Tweet - "The January 6th hearings remind us that politics today is not a debate over ideas. It's about whether we maintain our democratic form of government against those who propagate a Big Lie, violence and authoritarianism." Sen. Bernie Sanders
June 7, 2022 Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Warren Lead Over 20 Senators Urging President Biden to Issue Executive Order to Defend Americans' Right to an Abortion Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
May 26, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Speaks With Students Participating in "Vermont Day" at the Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate Sen. Bernie Sanders
May 25, 2022 Tweet - "Enough is enough. We must abolish the filibuster and pass gun safety legislation NOW. No one in America needs an AR-15. How many more children, mothers and fathers need to be murdered in cold blood before the Senate has the guts to ban assault weapons and take on the NRA?" Sen. Bernie Sanders
May 11, 2022 Tweet - "If you can't stand up for a woman's right to choose, for voting rights, for an economy that works for all, why are you caucusing with the Senate Democrats? We need a Democratic Majority where all members believe in economic, racial, social and environmental justice." Sen. Bernie Sanders
May 10, 2022 Letter to Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Jerry Moran, Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies - Padilla, Durbin Lead Colleagues in Advocating for Funding for DOJ's Newly Established Office of Environmental Justice Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
May 10, 2022 Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader - Abolishing the Filibuster and Protecting Reproductive Freedom Sen. Peter Welch, ...
May 9, 2022 Tweet - "If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to keep abortion legal and safe." Sen. Bernie Sanders
May 6, 2022 Letter to Tammy Baldwin, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Other Related Agencies; and John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Other Related Agencies - Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
May 3, 2022 Rep. Peter Welch's Statement on Draft Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Sen. Peter Welch
May 2, 2022 Tweet - "Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren't 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes." Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 18, 2022 Letter to Antony Blinken, Secretary of State - Cicilline, Meeks, Castro, Titus Call on State Department to Expand Opportunities for LGBTQI+ Diplomats Sen. Peter Welch, ...
April 15, 2022 Tweet - "At a time when a handful of huge Wall Street firms control the economic life of the country, they are now moving to control the political life as well. We must overturn Citizens United, that disastrous Supreme Court decision, and move to public funding of elections." Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 7, 2022 Tweet - "Let me congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, and on her lifetime of service that has led to this historic and well-deserved moment." Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 7, 2022 Tweet - "Let me congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, and on her lifetime of service that has led to this historic and well-deserved moment." Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 6, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Historic Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 5, 2022 Letter to Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Gillibrand, Representative Bass Lead Bicameral Letter Urging White House to Update Federal Awards Guidelines to Prioritize Local Hire Programs Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
April 3, 2022 Tweet - "Since her nomination by the President, and throughout the hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has handled herself with dignity and intelligence -- more than can be said of her critics. I'll be voting for her and I'm confident she'll be an outstanding Supreme Court Justice." Sen. Bernie Sanders
April 2, 2022 Letter to Charles Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader - Menendez, Booker, Colleagues Urge Senate Leadership to Support Senate Cafeteria Workers Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
March 31, 2022 Letter to Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the United States - Senators Gillibrand, Sanders And Merkley, Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Pascrell And Kaptur Press Postmaster Dejoy To Improve Postal Banking Pilot Programs Sen. Bernie Sanders, ...
March 8, 2022 Sanders Statement on Passage of Major Postal Reform Bill Sen. Bernie Sanders
March 8, 2022 Tweet - "Today the Senate passed the Postal Service Reform Act. Is this all that is needed to fix the problems of the Postal Service? No, it is not. But it's an important step forward for one of our nation's most important government agencies, for its workers, and for our communities." Sen. Bernie Sanders
March 4, 2022 More Than 30,000 Vermont Households Join Sanders Statewide Telephone Town Meeting Sen. Bernie Sanders
March 3, 2022 Tweet - "Unfortunately, we have a corrupt political system and some Senators are more interested in getting campaign contributions from the wealthy and the powerful than doing the work of the American people. It's a sad state of affairs." Sen. Bernie Sanders
March 1, 2022 Rep. Peter Welch Announces Virtual Guest for President Biden's State of the Union Address Sen. Peter Welch
March 1, 2022 Letter to Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Squeezing American Families With Rapid and Widespread Price Hikes on Prescription Drugs Sen. Peter Welch, ...
Feb. 25, 2022 Tweet - "We need a new member of the Supreme Court who has a strong track record standing up for justice -- economic justice, racial justice, social justice, political justice and environmental justice. There is no doubt that Judge Jackson is that person. I strongly support her nomination." Sen. Bernie Sanders
Date Title Politician
Sept. 1, 2022 Tweet - "The threats to our democracy could not be clearer, and we must act boldly to protect it." Sen.Bernie Sanders
Aug. 19, 2022 Rep. Welch Votes to Pass Historic Legislation to Fight Climate Change, Lower Health Care Costs, and Cut Household Expenses Sen.Peter Welch
Aug. 11, 2022 Tweet - "The United States should stand for democracy and support free and fair elections. To that end, we must make absolutely clear that it will not support any government that comes to power in Brazil through undemocratic means." Sen.Bernie Sanders
Aug. 10, 2022 Tweet - "The "Inflation Reduction Act" is a very small step forward. Standing together we can do better. We must do better. Tune in to hear what I said on the Senate floor this weekend." Sen.Bernie Sanders
Aug. 7, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Statement on Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act Sen.Bernie Sanders
Aug. 7, 2022 Tweet - "Today the Inflation Reduction Act passed the Senate 51-50. In my view, this legislation goes nowhere near far enough for working families, but it does begin to address the existential crisis of climate change. It's an important step forward and I was happy to support it." Sen.Bernie Sanders
Aug. 2, 2022 Tweet - "The 700-page so-called Inflation Reduction Act, after months of secret negotiations, became public late last week. Now is the time for every member of the Senate to study this bill thoroughly and to come up with amendments and suggestions as to how we can improve it." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 26, 2022 Letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Miller, Schneider, Colleagues Urge Administration to Ensure Financial Certainty, Protect Hospitals from Economic Impacts of COVID-19, Inflation Sen.Peter Welch, ...
July 23, 2022 Tweet - "Republicans talk about the cost of a Green New Deal. Really? If left unchecked, climate change, according to Deloitte, could cost the global economy $178 trillion over the next 50 years. Droughts, floods, extreme weather are expensive. Inaction is not a moral or economic option." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 22, 2022 Tweet - "Pharma is spending millions to defeat a very modest drug pricing bill. Intel is spending millions to get a $20 billion handout. Joe Manchin, who is blocking climate action, is the major recipient of fossil fuel campaign contributions. This is how a corrupt political system works." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 20, 2022 Letter to Joseph Biden, President of the United States - Urging Climate Emergency Declaration Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 18, 2022 Tweet - "Sen. Manchin is intentionally sabotaging the President's agenda, what the American people want, and what the majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. He is not interested in representing the needs of the working class of this country." Sen.Bernie Sanders
July 18, 2022 LARSON, SANDERS CALL FOR STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SECURITY AFTER GAO REPORT SERIES SHOWS HARMFUL DELAYS IN DISABILITY APPEALS Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
July 13, 2022 Letter to Robert Califf, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration - Reps. Barragán and DeLauro Lead Colleagues in Call to FDA to Appoint and Empower a Deputy Commissioner for Foods Sen.Peter Welch, ...
July 13, 2022 Tweet - "I'll be LIVE on the floor of the Senate at 1:30pm ET to discuss why, at a time of massive wealth and income inequality, now is not the time for Congress to hand a $53 billion blank check to the microchip industry." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 30, 2022 Tweet - "President Biden is absolutely right. Senate Democrats must end the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion NOW. If you allow the broken rules of the Senate to stand in the way of guaranteeing basic rights for our people, you don't really stand for those rights." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 24, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Calls for End of Filibuster to Codify Right to Abortion Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 24, 2022 Rep. Welch's Statement on the Supreme Court's Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Sen.Peter Welch
June 24, 2022 Tweet - "Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 23, 2022 Tweet - "In 2020, 45,000 Americans died from gun-related injuries. We've recently seen horrific mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas. The Supreme Court's response: loosen gun safety laws. Six justices are way out of touch with reality." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 16, 2022 Tweet - "The Democratic Party cannot continue to ignore the needs of the working class of our country and expect to retain majority control in the US House and US Senate. It's time to show which side we're on. It's time to start voting." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 14, 2022 Tweet - "Right now, there are 1,500 paid lobbyists from both parties in Washington working overtime to make sure we don't represent our constituents who are dying and are sick and tired of paying outrageous prices for prescription drugs. What a disgrace." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 14, 2022 Letter to Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Robert Santos, Director of the US Census Bureau - Chairwoman Maloney, Rep. Tlaib, and Committee Democrats Push to Include the "Middle Eastern or North African" Response Category in U.S. Census, Federal Data Sen.Peter Welch, ...
June 10, 2022 Tweet - "The January 6th hearings remind us that politics today is not a debate over ideas. It's about whether we maintain our democratic form of government against those who propagate a Big Lie, violence and authoritarianism." Sen.Bernie Sanders
June 7, 2022 Letter to Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States - Murray, Warren Lead Over 20 Senators Urging President Biden to Issue Executive Order to Defend Americans' Right to an Abortion Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
May 26, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Speaks With Students Participating in "Vermont Day" at the Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate Sen.Bernie Sanders
May 25, 2022 Tweet - "Enough is enough. We must abolish the filibuster and pass gun safety legislation NOW. No one in America needs an AR-15. How many more children, mothers and fathers need to be murdered in cold blood before the Senate has the guts to ban assault weapons and take on the NRA?" Sen.Bernie Sanders
May 11, 2022 Tweet - "If you can't stand up for a woman's right to choose, for voting rights, for an economy that works for all, why are you caucusing with the Senate Democrats? We need a Democratic Majority where all members believe in economic, racial, social and environmental justice." Sen.Bernie Sanders
May 10, 2022 Letter to Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Jerry Moran, Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies - Padilla, Durbin Lead Colleagues in Advocating for Funding for DOJ's Newly Established Office of Environmental Justice Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
May 10, 2022 Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader - Abolishing the Filibuster and Protecting Reproductive Freedom Sen.Peter Welch, ...
May 9, 2022 Tweet - "If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster to keep abortion legal and safe." Sen.Bernie Sanders
May 6, 2022 Letter to Tammy Baldwin, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Other Related Agencies; and John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Other Related Agencies - Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
May 3, 2022 Rep. Peter Welch's Statement on Draft Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Sen.Peter Welch
May 2, 2022 Tweet - "Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren't 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes." Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 18, 2022 Letter to Antony Blinken, Secretary of State - Cicilline, Meeks, Castro, Titus Call on State Department to Expand Opportunities for LGBTQI+ Diplomats Sen.Peter Welch, ...
April 15, 2022 Tweet - "At a time when a handful of huge Wall Street firms control the economic life of the country, they are now moving to control the political life as well. We must overturn Citizens United, that disastrous Supreme Court decision, and move to public funding of elections." Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 7, 2022 Tweet - "Let me congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, and on her lifetime of service that has led to this historic and well-deserved moment." Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 7, 2022 Tweet - "Let me congratulate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, and on her lifetime of service that has led to this historic and well-deserved moment." Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 6, 2022 NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Historic Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 5, 2022 Letter to Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Gillibrand, Representative Bass Lead Bicameral Letter Urging White House to Update Federal Awards Guidelines to Prioritize Local Hire Programs Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
April 3, 2022 Tweet - "Since her nomination by the President, and throughout the hearings, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has handled herself with dignity and intelligence -- more than can be said of her critics. I'll be voting for her and I'm confident she'll be an outstanding Supreme Court Justice." Sen.Bernie Sanders
April 2, 2022 Letter to Charles Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader - Menendez, Booker, Colleagues Urge Senate Leadership to Support Senate Cafeteria Workers Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
March 31, 2022 Letter to Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the United States - Senators Gillibrand, Sanders And Merkley, Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Pascrell And Kaptur Press Postmaster Dejoy To Improve Postal Banking Pilot Programs Sen.Bernie Sanders, ...
March 8, 2022 Sanders Statement on Passage of Major Postal Reform Bill Sen.Bernie Sanders
March 8, 2022 Tweet - "Today the Senate passed the Postal Service Reform Act. Is this all that is needed to fix the problems of the Postal Service? No, it is not. But it's an important step forward for one of our nation's most important government agencies, for its workers, and for our communities." Sen.Bernie Sanders
March 4, 2022 More Than 30,000 Vermont Households Join Sanders Statewide Telephone Town Meeting Sen.Bernie Sanders
March 3, 2022 Tweet - "Unfortunately, we have a corrupt political system and some Senators are more interested in getting campaign contributions from the wealthy and the powerful than doing the work of the American people. It's a sad state of affairs." Sen.Bernie Sanders
March 1, 2022 Rep. Peter Welch Announces Virtual Guest for President Biden's State of the Union Address Sen.Peter Welch
March 1, 2022 Letter to Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senator Baldwin, Colleagues Call Out Drug Manufacturers For Squeezing American Families With Rapid and Widespread Price Hikes on Prescription Drugs Sen.Peter Welch, ...
Feb. 25, 2022 Tweet - "We need a new member of the Supreme Court who has a strong track record standing up for justice -- economic justice, racial justice, social justice, political justice and environmental justice. There is no doubt that Judge Jackson is that person. I strongly support her nomination." Sen.Bernie Sanders
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