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Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food. “I personally believe, and I think most Americans believe, that when a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her…
Sen. Sanders blasts conflicts of interest at the Federal Reserve
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday explained the importance of ending conflicts of interest at the Federal Reserve. Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, serves on the New York Fed’s board of directors. The Fed supervises the financial sector and decides whether to provide bank holding companies with…
Sen. Sanders on GOP mindset: If it’s good for America, we can’t do it
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday night said Republicans in Congress refused to pass the transportation funding bill because it would make the President look good. The Senate in March passed legislation reauthorizing transportation funding for two years with bipartisan support. The $109-billion bill is estimated to create 1.8 million…
Sanders: Wall Street is continuing its ‘insane gambling casino’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) launched his latest stinging critique at Wall Street Tuesday morning, specifically at JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ahead of his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee next week. “They have learned nothing about the fact that, what financial institutions in this country should be investing…
Senators hope to end Federal Reserve’s conflicts of interest
Three U.S. Senators proposed a bill on Tuesday that would prevent the nation’s most powerful banking executives from simultaneously running the very institutions intended to keep them playing by the rules, with one of the bill’s sponsors saying that JP Morgan’s recent billions in losses are indicative of “a fox…
Sen. Bernie Sanders holds hearing to announce $3 billion AIDS drug prize
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a public hearing today to call for the end of legal monopolies on HIV/AIDS drugs and to introduce Senate bill 1138, which includes a $3 billion prize program for the discovery of new HIV/AIDS treatments, according to a press release from Sen. Sanders’s office. The…
WATCH LIVE: Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks against GOP summit to cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced plans to a press conference Tuesday on the dangers of a Republican plan to cut social safety net programs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, according to Fire Dog Lake. Sanders and other opponents oppose a Fiscal Summit scheduled with House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan…
Bernie Sanders: Congress spends day and night worrying about the wealthy
At a congressional summit Wednesday about the Citizens United decision, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the U.S. Congress was only concerned about the “wealthy and powerful” because of the influence of campaign contributions. “This country faces enormous problems, the middle-class is declining, poverty is increasing, we’re worried about global warming,…
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasts economic inequality: This is not what democracy looks like
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) railed against the growing economic inequality in the United States during a Senate speech in support of the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012. “It is absurd that at a time when our country has a $15 trillion national debt and enormous unmet needs, the…
Vermont senators blast the JOBS Act after Senate passes it
Vermont Sens. Bernie Sanders (I) and Patrick Leahy (D) on Thursday trashed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, saying it could lead to another financial crisis. The Senate voted 73 to 26 to pass the bill, which was aimed at making it easier for small business’s to raise capital.…
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