===Bernie Sanders===
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 nomination in 2016 and 2020.
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 nomination in 2016 and 2020.
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Reps. Pressley, Omar Introduce Long COVID Moonshot Bill WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05) introduced the Long Covid Research Moonshot Act, which would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $1 billion in mandatory funding per year for a decade to support studies, the pursuit of treatments, and the expansion of care for U.S. patients impacted by the condition. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced companion legislation last month. “Those experiencing Long COVID have been facing their challenges unheard for far too long, and they deserve a robust federal response that demonstrates that we see them, we have not forgotten about them, and we will not stop fighting to get them the care they need and deserve,” said Congresswoman Pressley. “Our bill builds on previous legislation to invest the resources necessary to confront this crisis head-on and it will help ensure that no one is left out or left behind in our pandemic recovery. I’m grateful to Rep. Omar and our colleagues for their partnership.” “Long COVID is a silent health crisis impacting over twenty-three million Americans, including one million children,” said Rep. Omar. “We must take bold action to help Americans suffering from long COVID. I’m proud to lead this effort in the House with Rep. Pressley to recognize long COVID as the public health emergency that it is and invest in countering the effects of this terrible disease.” “For far too long, millions of Americans suffering from long Covid have had their symptoms dismissed or ignored—by the medical community, by the media, and by Congress,” said Sanders, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). “That is unacceptable and has got to change. The legislation that we have introduced finally recognizes that long Covid is a public health emergency and provides an historic investment into research, development, and education needed to counter the effects of this terrible disease.” The Long Covid Research Moonshot Act is cosponsored by Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Eleanor Holmes (DC), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Adam Smith (WA-09), Cori Bush (MO-01), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Barbara Lee (CA-12), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), Gwen Moore (WI-04), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Kevin Mullin (CA-15), Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10). (Ayanna Pressley 9/30/24) READ MORE>>>>> 
Nov 30, 2022: The Guardian: Bernie Sanders in damn good mittens – Brendan Smialowski’s best photograph
This picture was taken during the early part of Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, when the invitees were arriving. I work for Agence France-Presse, one of the bigger wire services in the world. There’s basically three left these days and we’re all competing. We hardwire our cameras to the internet so we can transmit images directly. When I saw Senator Sanders come in, I took a couple of pictures and decided which to send. Oct 25, 2022: Vanity Fair: BERNIE SANDERS: DEMOCRATS ARE LETTING REPUBLICANS WIN THE MESSAGING WAR OVER THE ECONOMY
The Vermont senator thinks Democrats should punch back on issues like Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits and prescription drugs. “Why aren’t Democrats talking about it?” Sanders tells Vanity Fair ahead of an eight-state-swing campaigning for Democratic candidates. “How do you win elections if you don’t talk about those issues?” Dec 5, 2021: Newsweek: Bob Dole Tributes Pour in After Former GOP Senator Dies at 98
"Bob Dole served his country with courage on the battlefield, and with dignity in the Senate. Jane and I send our condolences to his family," Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont tweeted. Sept 6, 2021: NBC5 Vermont: Sanders' Labor Day Town Hall addressing large "Reconciliation Package"
The Senator's last stop on Monday was in Middlebury, where he was met with a standing ovation from a crowd of 600 people. Aug 11, 2020: NPR: Rep. Ilhan Omar Wins Congressional Primary
Omar received endorsements from progressive allies including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Notably, despite policy disagreements within the party, Omar also secured the support of key establishment Democratic leaders such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 
Feb 25, 2020
If someone would have told me even just a year or so ago that a Presidential candidate would be defending Fidel Castro's Cuba I would have thought what a insane thing to say. But..Bernie did. From a 2016 Wall Street Journal article: Project Vice President Armando Lago, a Harvard-trained economist, has spent years studying the cost of the revolution and he estimates that almost 78,000 innocents may have died trying to flee the dictatorship. Another 5,300 are known to have lost their lives fighting communism in the Escambray Mountains (mostly peasant farmers and their children) and at the Bay of Pigs. An estimated 14,000 Cubans were killed in Fidel’s revolutionary adventures abroad, most notably his dispatch of 50,000 soldiers to Angola in the 1980s to help the Soviet-backed regime fight off the Unita insurgency. Cuba Archive finds that some 5,600 Cubans have died in front of firing squads and another 1,200 in “extrajudicial assassinations.” Che Guevara was a gleeful executioner at the infamous La Cabana Fortress in 1959 where, under his orders, at least 151 Cubans were lined up and shot. Children have not been spared. Of the 94 minors whose deaths have been documented by Cuba Archive, 22 died by firing squad and 32 in extrajudicial assassinations. Mar 11, 2016: Salon: Paul Krugman slams Bernie Sanders for being as big of a demagogue as Donald Trump
In his Friday editorial, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman attacked those on the left and right for criticizing the current set of free-trade policies without offering a solution that would accomplish the complementary political goals behind them. an 15, 2016: Subscription Insider: The Nation Erects a Paywall, Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
Earlier this week, executive editor Richard Kim announced that The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, would erect a metered paywall. Effective Monday, January 11, regular visitors to the site will have to pay for The Nation’s content. Jan 13, 2016: MediaIte: CNN’s Van Jones: Democratic Base in ‘Full-on Rebellion’ Against Hillary Clinton
Former Obama advisor and CNN contributor Van Jones said Tuesday that we are witnessing a “full-on rebellion” within the Democratic Party against Hillary Clinton, predicting that Bernie Sanders would win the first two primary states. Dec 28, 2015: Media Matters: CNN's Brian Stelter Highlights Network News' "Bernie Blackout" Study Found That ABC World News Tonight Has Devoted 81 Minutes To Trump, One Minute To Sanders Nov 16, 2015: Democracy Now: Sanders Criticizes Clinton Iraq Vote: 2003 Invasion Unraveled Region & Led to Rise of ISIS At Saturday’s debate, Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparred over the U.S. role in the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Oct 27, 2015: Advocate: Rachel Maddow: 'There Is a Difference' Between Sanders, Clinton on LGBT RightHillary Clinton's version of what happened when the Defense of Marriage Act was signed by her husband took another sharp jab on Monday night. In another The Rachel Maddow Show interview, this time with opponent Bernie Sanders, the Democratic frontrunner for the presidential nomination was called out in definitive terms for revising history Aug 12, 2015: Indomitable: Please Teach Me Something: What Are Your Thoughts on Bernie Sanders and the Black Lives Matter Movement? I have recently been asked by more than one media outlet for my thoughts about Bernie Sanders and the Black Lives Matter movement. Save for comments during my last guest appearance on Ring of Fire TV, I have told folks that I am still formulating my thoughts on what is a very complicated and important matter. une 3, 2015: Washington Post: Bernie Sanders’s ‘socialist’ charade
Does any stricture of journalistic propriety or social etiquette require us to participate in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s charade? Is it obligatory to take seriously his pose of being an “independent” and a “socialist”? It gives excitable Democratic activists a frisson of naughtiness to pretend that he is both. Actually, he is neither. May 20, 2015: Crooks & Liars: Neil Cavuto And Ben Stein Attack Clinton And Sanders For Waging Class Warfare On The Rich
It seems that Fox's Neil Cavuto was shameless enough to complain about President Obama over the weekend on his Saturday show, and then turn right around on his weekday show and allow Ben Stein to give Jon Stewart, this blog, and Media Matters some more material for our archives of Fox and their poor-shaming. May 1, 2015: New York Times: Bernie Sanders Yells His Mind Our topic today is: Bernie Sanders for president? Apr 30, 2015: Slate: Not Weakened With Bernie How Bernie Sanders running for president helps Hillary Clinton. Apr 29, 2015: Bloomberg: Bernie Sanders Says He is Running for President Bernie Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, said Wednesday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, setting up a progressive challenge to frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Apr 28, 2015: David Badash: New Civil Rights Movement: America Could Have An Actual Socialist President: Bernie Sanders To Announce White House Run Jan 29, 2015: PoliticusUSA: Bernie Sanders Rips The “Crazy” Senate For Passing Keystone XL Bill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t hold anything back when he called the Senate’s passage of a bill that authorized the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline crazy. Dec 15, 2014: VT Diggers: Sanders to defend Social Security on Budget Committee Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), slated to take over as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, announced today that he will use the position to defend and expand Social Security, “the most successful government program in history.” Sept 15, 2014: ABC News: Weekend at Bernie's: As Hillary Serves Steaks, Liberals Crave Red Meat in Iowa In a cramped church basement a few miles from downtown, a crowd of more than 400 sweltered through a 90-minute discussion Sunday night with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described “democratic socialist” independent senator from Vermont who’s considering a run for president as a Democrat. |
November 8, 1980: Sanders announced his candidacy for mayor of Burlington, Vermont
April 6, 1981: Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont
May 28, 1988: Sanders married Jane O'Meara Driscoll (née Mary Jane O'Meara), who later became president of Burlington College, in Burlington, Vermont
May 29, 1988: (The day after their wedding) the couple visited the Soviet Union as part of an official delegation in his capacity as mayor February 7, 1992, Sanders sponsored the Cancer Registries Amendment Act to establish cancer registries to collect data on cancer.
April 21, 2005: Sanders entered the race for the U.S. Senate
February 4, 2009: Sanders sponsored an amendment to ensure that TARP funds would not displace U.S. workers. The amendment passed and was added to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
December 10, 2010: Sanders delivered an 8 hour and 34 minute speech against the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
June 6, 2014: Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Rachel Maddow to explain why the bipartisan VA bill isn’t politics as usual. This legislation actually has a good chance of passing.
April 30, 2015: Sanders announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for president
July 1, 2015: The Sanders campaign stop in Madison, Wisconsin, drew the largest crowd of any 2016 presidential candidate to that date, with an estimated turnout of 10,000. November 15, 2015: in response to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s attacks in Paris, he cautioned against Islamophobia and said, "We gotta be tough, not stupid" in the war against ISIL, adding that the U.S. should continue to welcome Syrian refugees December 4, 2015: Sanders won Time's 2015 Person of the Year readers' poll with 10.2% of the vote February 6, 2016: Sanders was a guest star alongside Larry David on Saturday Night Live, playing a Polish immigrant on a steamship that was sinking near the Statue of Liberty
March 17, 2016: Sanders said he would support Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court July 12, 2016: Sanders formally endorsed Clinton in her unsuccessful general election campaign against Republican Donald Trump November 8, 2016: In the general election, Sanders received almost 6% of the vote in Vermont, even though he was no longer a candidate. May 4, 2017: in response to the House vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Sanders predicted "thousands of Americans would die" from no longer having access to health care
May 30, 2017: Sanders received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Brooklyn College. June 12, 2017:Sanders opposed legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia and Iran. May 9, 2018: Sanders introduced the Workplace Democracy Act, a bill that would expand labor rights by making it easier for workers to join a union, ban right-to-work laws and some anti-union provisions of the Taft–Hartley Act, and outlaw some union-busting tactics.
September 5, 2018: Sanders partnered with Ro Khanna to introduce the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, which would require large corporations to pay for the food stamps and Medicaid benefits that their employees receive, relieving the burden on taxpayers. April 6, 2019: Sanders participated in a Fox News town hall that attracted more than 2.55 million viewers.
August 6, 2019: Sanders appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. October 1, 2019: Sanders was hospitalized after experiencing chest pains at a campaign event in Las Vegas. April 8, 2020: Sanders announced that he was suspending his campaign.
On April 14, 2020: Sanders endorsed Joe Biden for President. January 6, 2021: Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Sanders commented: "[Trump] has made it clear that he will do anything to remain in power – including insurrection and inciting violence [and he] will go down in history as the worst and most dangerous president in history. February 23, 2021: Sanders became the first senator in the Democratic caucus to oppose one of Biden's cabinet picks when he voted against Tom Vilsack's confirmation as Agriculture Secretary, citing concerns about Vilsack's past work as a lobbyist and ties to large corporations 
May 26, 2015
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Sept 14, 2014: Daily Kos: Bernie Sanders: “I am thinking about running for president,”
Sanders, an independent from Vermont, could pose a challenge from the left to the former first lady and secretary of state, who is widely seen as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She has not officially said she is a candidate but has acted very much like one.
June 13, 2014: The Nation: Bernie Sanders Is Beating the Austerity Hawks
Bernie Sanders does not believe that government always gets things right.
Sanders, an independent from Vermont, could pose a challenge from the left to the former first lady and secretary of state, who is widely seen as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She has not officially said she is a candidate but has acted very much like one.
June 13, 2014: The Nation: Bernie Sanders Is Beating the Austerity Hawks
Bernie Sanders does not believe that government always gets things right.
