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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted against the bill after railing against its price tag, lamenting last week that the current defense system “is designed to make huge profits for a handful of ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he will push forward new legislation to cap credit card interest rates to 10%, ... Senate Passes Bill To Stop Shutdown, Sending It To President Biden's Desk.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without loss of pay.. The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work ...
The Build Back Better Act was a bill introduced in the 117th Congress to fulfill aspects of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Plan.It was spun off from the American Jobs Plan, alongside the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as a $3.5 trillion Democratic reconciliation package that included provisions related to climate change and social policy.
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential ...
In June 2016, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced an agreement on a Puerto Rico debt relief bill, Sanders said the bill was a "terrible piece of legislation, setting horrific precedent and must not be passed" and stated his opposition to the US treating Puerto Rico "like a colony." [104]
On Feb. 13, Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) formally reintroduced The Social Security Expansion Act to Congress, and this time, he had a lot more support from fellow lawmakers pushing the...
A 2019 analysis was critical of Sanders' bill for allowing accountable care organizations and failing to include a provision to negotiate budgets with hospitals. [ 23 ] According to a 2020 study in The Lancet , the Medicare for All Act was estimated to save 13% in national health-care expenditure (equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually ...