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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.
- Nov 07, 2020
Finland is no utopia.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
- Gambling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
- As Much Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.
- Dominated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington is dominated by big money.
- Greedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
- Middle Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
- Big Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a pariah.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.
- Constitutional Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
- Credit Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not much into speculation.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.
- Dental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.
- Health Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
- Economic Recovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
- Fair Share
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.
- Goldman Sachs
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.
- Nov 07, 2020
Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
- Nov 07, 2020
In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.
- Consumer
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
- Energy Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020