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  1. Health Care: U.S. vs. Canada Dr. Danielle Martin, a family physician from Toronto, compared health care in her country to the more expensive but less effective system in the United States. She was questioned at a Senate hearing on Tuesday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the health subcommittee chairman, and Sen. Richard Burr, the ranking Republican. With a hint of sarcasm, Sanders asked the doctor to explain how come the conservative Canadian premier hasn’t gotten rid of the country’s health care system. In another exchange, as the Los Angeles Times put it, Dr. Martin “bats down the myths and misunderstandings about the Canadian system that Burr throws at her.” Burr, for example, asked why former Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams had a heart valve operation in Miami, where he owns a condo, instead of in Canada.
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  2. WATCH: Sen. Bernie Sanders talks with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News.
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  4. Day Seven:  As the government shutdown headed into a second week with no resolution in sight, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday made three key points. First, Democrats already made significant concessions in the budget talks by agreeing to lower spending levels. The Senate went along with a House budget that would continue across-the-board cuts known as sequestration. That was a “major concession,” Sanders said, but House Republicans keep adding new demands. Second, the senator doubted House Speaker John Boehner’s claim that the Senate-passed spending resolution wouldn’t pass the House. In fact, some 20 House Republicans have signaled that they would support a so-called clean resolution and vote with House Democrats to reopen the government “Bring it to a vote, let's find out what's happening,” Sanders told Thomas Roberts on MSNBC. Third, the shutdown strategy was planned and paid for by the Koch brothers and other wealthy individuals who want to defund the Affordable Care Act, cut Social Security benefits, end Medicare as we know it, abolish the minimum wage and cut other programs that help working families. Their attitude, Sanders said, is “to use every ounce of leverage, even if it means catastrophic pain for America and the world, so long as we get our way.” He cited a Sunday New York Times expose that detailed how the Koch brothers and others plotted the shutdown “from the day after Obama was re-elected.” The Koch Brothers: http://youtu.be/fNj8bpY2PEY
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  5. Wal-Mart Welfare:  Who opposes raising the minimum wage? Wal-Mart. The discount chain made the Walton family the richest in American by paying workers so little they need food stamps to feed their families and Medicaid to pay their doctor bills. In an interview on Tuesday with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case for raising the minimum wage to help workers at Wal-Mart and other employers that now pay starvation wages. A side benefit, Sanders added, would be that taxpayers wouldn’t have to subsidize the Waltons. Watch the interview here: http://youtu.be/eYFueqv0iIQ
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  6. Flashback: Republicans Block VA Health Care Funds: http://youtu.be/Zk5ZJ6uVO9Y
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  7. As the longest serving independent in the history of the U.S. Congress I want to address an issue that I think does not get the kind of discussion that it should from either political party...  Watch the speech here: http://youtu.be/fQOCfweYLrE
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  8. A Health Care Cure: The online health-insurance marketplace now works for almost all users. “The Republican nightmare is that the Affordable Care Act is working” Sen. Bernie Sanders told Ed Schultz on Monday on MSNBC. Millions of Americans who never had health insurance may now be covered. Community health centers that provide affordable primary and dental care are being expanded. He called the Affordable Care Act an important step forward. An even better long-term solution, he stressed, would be a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system to provide better health care to more people at less cost. Watch Sen. Sanders: Health Care For All
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  9. 50 years ago today a 22-year old college student named Bernie Sanders rode to DC to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. say the words 'I Have a Dream': http://youtu.be/4Tr8DEQl034
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  10. Republicans vs. Republicans: Republicans vs. Republicans Read about the 49 Republicans Who Say Shutting Down The Government Over Obamacare Is A Big Mistake: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/49-republicans-who-say-shutting-down-the-government-over-obamacare-is-a-big-mistake
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  11. A Very Ugly Moment: “What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to millionaires but we can’t take care of the elderly and the children?” Sen. Bernie Sanders asked on Monday. He was reacting to a new report that more than 18 percent of Americans last year struggled to afford food. Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, are calling for deeper and deeper cuts in food stamps, a program that provides help mostly to children and seniors. We are living in “a very ugly moment,” the senator told the Rev. Al Sharpton.
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  12. VIDEO: Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks about Citizens United and the state of our nation on NBC's Meet the Press: http://youtu.be/XcaSYclEKQg
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  13. The fact is that high gasoline prices have less to do with supply and demand and more to do with Wall Street speculators.  Watch Sen. Sanders here: http://youtu.be/MFLwZKyWNVw
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  14. Hey, Paul Ryan, You Lost: http://youtu.be/GvzwpIZiwzM
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  15. The Ryan Budget is Vulgar and Obscene: The Ryan Budget is Vulgar and Obscene
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  16. Spying on Americans:  President Barack Obama is crafting legislation that would stop the National Security Agency from collecting records on millions of Americans’ telephone calls. Instead, phone companies would store the records. Law enforcement officials would have to convince a judge that there is a specific reason to search the records. Meanwhile, however, the administration asked a special court that operates in secret for a 90-day extension of the NSA’s authorization to conduct the bulk collection. “The president should end that program now, not 90 days from now,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday. He discussed it with Ed Schultz on MSNBC. Watch the video: http://youtu.be/P7zUlatc5ZA
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  17. Fools! http://youtu.be/cZxCXBgJzVg
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  18. 'Their Nightmare' With more than 7 million Americans signing up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, critics who predicted its collapse are instead dealing with “their worst nightmare,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Monday. “First, the United States remains the only country in the industrialized world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all of its people as a right. Second of all, the Republicans have opposed the Affordable Care Act from day one – it is their nightmare that it succeeds. Thirdly these are the same guys that want to end Medicare as we know it, convert it into a voucher program, who want to make massive cuts in Medicaid, who had eight years under Bush to do something – even a little thing – about health care, they did nothing. So these guys have nothing at all to say. And their nightmare is as millions of people begin to get affordable health care, as the Medicaid program expands and people who never had health insurance in their lives finally are able to go into a doctor – for the Republicans this is a nightmare. Imagine that the United States government does something for ordinary people and not just for billionaires – what kind of nightmare is that? That is their fear, Ed,” Sanders said in an interview with Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
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  19. Medicare for All:  On today’s 48th anniversary of the law that created Medicare, Sen. Bernie Sanders joined a coalition advocating a Medicare-for-all health care system to provide better care at less cost. Sanders spoke at a news conference with Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and other supporters of a single-payer health care system.  “It is long past time that we recognize health care is a right, not a privilege,” Sanders said. “I am proud that Vermont is leading the nation in working to establish a single-payer system to provide better care at less cost.” Watch Sen. Sanders' speech here: Medicare for All
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  20. I Have a Dream: http://youtu.be/4Tr8DEQl034
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  21. We have a moral imperative to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions.
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  22. Action Plan for Veterans:  Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders on Sunday outlined a comprehensive legislative package to address “reprehensible” behavior by VA officials and to correct underlying problems in access to medical care. Sanders spelled out details of the legislation after an appearance Sunday on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.” Watch Sen. Sanders on Face The Nation: http://youtu.be/jFpqoJgzJ28 Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/action-plan-for-veterans
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  23. A Political Crisis: This shutdown did not just come about because of Senator Ted Cruz. This has been planned by the Koch brothers and other very wealthy people from the day after President Obama was re-elected: http://youtu.be/ctzrQp1HPmE
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  24. Plant Your Flag:  "If we are going to save the middle class and protect our planet, we need to change the political dynamics of the nation. We can no longer allow the billionaires and their think tanks or the corporate media to set the agenda," Sen. Sanders wrote in a column for The Huffington Post. "You’ve got to plant your flag. We have to have some very specific legislation that the American people can rally around," he said in a video outlining a progressive agenda for the new year. Watch Sen. Sanders talk about the 2014 progressive agenda: http://youtu.be/JQj0NmjrCOU
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  26. Postal Service Turns a Profit: Increased revenue from its packing and shipping business boosted U.S. Postal Service revenue in the first quarter of this fiscal year. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a leading defender of the Postal Service and has fought to save Saturday mail and prevent layoffs of thousands of workers. He talked about it on Monday with Ed Schultz on MSNBC.
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  27. Republicans are saying the same things about the Affordable Care Act as they said about Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965: http://youtu.be/3lMsurGlXJI
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  28. Remember Rep. Paul Ryan? The failed Republican candidate for vice president has been relatively quiet as Tea Party extremists have commandeered his party and the debate over the government shutdown. But the House Budget Committee chairman waded into the debt-limit debate in a column published Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. He said he would consider letting the government avoid default if “entitlement reform” is a part of the deal.  Translation: he wants to cut Social Security benefits and change Medicare.  Don't Make Seniors, Veterans Pay for the Shutdown: http://youtu.be/P1vLF2bluPo
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  29. If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war: http://youtu.be/w4G89EUdzkU
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  31. Watch Sen. Sanders and Chris Hayes discuss how the Senate voted down Sanders' veterans bill yesterday: http://youtu.be/HyOTFg7d-II
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  32. Republicans Deny Benefits For Veterans: http://youtu.be/HyOTFg7d-II Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-republicans-block-veterans-bill
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  33. Stop Spying on Americans: http://youtu.be/V6IIcksTU1g
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  34. Gas Probe Price:  Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Tuesday for an investigation into oil price manipulation.  He also proposed a 30-day deadline for federal regulators to use emergency powers to curb excessive speculation in crude oil markets. Over the past five months, the national average price for a gallon of gasoline has gone up by more than 41 cents. The price hikes come at a time when U.S. oil inventories reached a three-decade high while demand for gasoline is lower than four years ago when prices averaged less than $2.30 a gallon. Sanders spoke about rapidly rising gas prices during a Senate floor speech on two amendments he proposed to the farm bill. Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/lRkKfGr_TWw
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  35. Republican Denial: http://youtu.be/Qilz9c1AbOw
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  36. Through the Looking Glass: During what Sen. Bernie Sanders called an Alice in Wonderland hearing, Senate environment committee Republicans on Thursday contradicted or ignored the near-unanimous consensus by climate scientists that global warming is real and man-made. Watch a clip here: http://youtu.be/je0_LKQQdng Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=76D6D362-05CA-46D6-97C3-0211BBFEB028
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  37. Sen. Bernie Sanders discusses Vermont's move to single-payer health care with MSNBC's Richard Lui.
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  38. Today on the Senate floor Sen. Sanders made the case for real filibuster reform. Watch here: Senate Dysfunction
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  39. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks on the Senate floor about ISIS, fighting terrorism and our priorities as a nation: http://youtu.be/8RlhUI4qQbo
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  40. Bullies:  House Republicans are trying to undo the Affordable Care Act, throw millions of children and the elderly off food stamps and continue across-the-board sequestration cuts that have slashed Head Start, Meals on Wheels, home heating assistance and other programs.  That’s just the agenda for this week when the Republicans are using the threat of a government shutdown on Oct. 1 to try to get their way. “What you’re talking about is the incredible cruelty and arrogance of a party representing the wealthy and the powerful to punish the poor and working people,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told Martin Bashir on MSNBC. “These are bullies who are beating up on helpless people … They don’t impress me.” http://youtu.be/E0V-62m_yoI
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  41. Senate Republicans Block Veterans Bill: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-republicans-block-veterans-bill Watch CNN's Chris Cuomo explain how Sen. Sanders' veterans bill was voted down yesterday: http://youtu.be/NTaLcCny1K0
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  42. Let's Discuss: http://youtu.be/uOSq239ra4s?list=UUD_DaKNac0Ta-2PeHuoQ1uA
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  43. Give Students a Fair Shot: Give Students a Fair Shot
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  44. Congress must address the issue of student loan rates: http://youtu.be/pQnBcFt0iw8
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  45. Red Ink The federal deficit is expected to shrink to $642 billion this year, half of what it was four years ago, the Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, welcomed the news. He cautioned, however, that the budget should not be balanced on the backs of seniors and children. And he called for rebuilding the country’s crumbling infrastructure to create millions of jobs, stimulate the economy and help working families. “We must not place ourselves in a situation in which the operation was a success but the patient died, and the patient that I am talking about, of course, is the disappearing middle class, the backbone of this great country.”
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  46. VIDEO: Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks out on the NSA's domestic surveillance programs: http://youtu.be/V6IIcksTU1g
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  47. VIDEO: Sen. Sanders talks about the situation in Ukraine and his veterans bill: http://youtu.be/z9YDgoOYj6Q
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  48. Lessons from the War in Iraq: http://youtu.be/bHfKc3sex_g?list=UUD_DaKNac0Ta-2PeHuoQ1uA
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  49. Off the Deep End:  Congressional Republicans are threatening to shut down the federal government next Tuesday unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded. The truth is that they’re just warming up and some of their other ideas are even further “off the deep end,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told radio host Bill Press on Tuesday. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders detailed a Republican to-do list that ranges from abolishing Social Security, privatizing VA health care, getting rid of the EPA, junking the minimum wage and more. Those and other proposals, the senator said, are detailed in the Texas Republican Party platform. The Lone Star Strategy: http://youtu.be/tf7s8mvHVzg
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  50. Sen. Sanders speaks on the Senate floor about the NSA's surveillance programs: http://youtu.be/tdcHBifH5fg
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  51. At the Brink:  The U.S. government neared its first shutdown in 17 years after House Republicans early Sunday demanded a delay in implementing a new health care law as a condition for avoiding a shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the House bill dead even before the post-midnight votes to delay President Obama’s health care law and repeal a tax to pay for it. Senate Democrats on Monday plan to table the Republican measures. That would give the House one last chance to pass a stand-alone spending bill to keep the government running when a new fiscal year begins on Tuesday. “The question is whether right-wing Republicans are prepared to highjack the American people and shut down the government,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said on MSNBC. Watch Sen. Sanders on MSNBC: http://youtu.be/83zaspylqgM What do you think?: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/poll
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  52. Caring for Veterans: http://youtu.be/2sRsIfQFB8M
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  53. What are your budget priorities? Weigh in here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/
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  54. Sen. Sanders talks with Andrea Mitchell Reports about #veterans health care: http://youtu.be/kl3WSyBsq-A
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  55. Grassroots Movements: http://youtu.be/ObDn4NOR1fA
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  56. Paul vs. The People: http://youtu.be/H-1O0hJVwSc
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  57. Sen. Sanders talks about the bloated Department of Defense budget: http://youtu.be/2KeReGOhUWk
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  58. Sen. Sanders talks with Chris Hayes about how Republicans have ignored the health care crisis: http://youtu.be/4w5jEhG_XxM
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  59. Sanders Challenges White House Report on Student Loans: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=257aefb7-9496-481f-b8ce-f53b93b7e522 Watch Sen. Sanders on the floor here: http://youtu.be/M25q4Pf1HrM
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  60. While official unemployment today is at about 7.5%, real unemployment, counting those people who have given up looking for work or people working part-time when they want to work full-time, is almost 14%. And if you look at young people unemployment or minority unemployment, the numbers are way, way higher. - Sen. Bernie Sanders on msnbc.  Watch the interview here: http://youtu.be/6gRLlyRDVG4
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  61. Sen. Sanders talks on msnbc about poverty in America: http://youtu.be/VxMCymLO-GU
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  62. Every Day is Veterans Day:  Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders made the case in a Senate floor speech on Tuesday for passage of the most comprehensive legislation for veterans to come before the Senate in decades. Sanders’ bill would improve VA health care and dental care, expand educational opportunities, help the VA address a disability claims backlog and help veterans find jobs. The measure also would undo a 1 percentage point cut in annual cost-of-living adjustments for military pensions that was part of a budget agreement late last year. It is backed by the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and many other organizations. Watch Sen. Sanders' speech here: http://youtu.be/jKqL2ivhGO4
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  63. How do you think the Congress should deal with student loan rates? Weigh in here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/ Watch Sen. Sanders speak here: http://youtu.be/pQnBcFt0iw8
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  64. Today the J-1 program has morphed into a low-wage jobs program to allow corporations like Hershey's and McDonald's and many others to replace young American workers with cheaper labor from abroad.  Watch Sen. Sanders speech here: http://youtu.be/yZz7DYCfM_s
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  65. Mr. President, Don't Cut Social Security: http://youtu.be/Pmg9hshxbFs
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  66. Last night Sen. Sanders discussed the #veterans medical system on CNN's Crossfire: http://youtu.be/_e1wUBdmQqc 
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  67. Starvation Wages for Fast-Food Workers: http://youtu.be/HEj-SJEhMRk Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=a877ce26-ca9a-4153-acc1-db0ea3b33f4b
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  68. The Lead on Food Labels: http://youtu.be/0EdP5xba9kM
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  69. Tea Party Hostage Taking - The American people have seen right-wing extremism in action: Tea Party Hostage Taking
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  70. Saddled with Student Debt:  Just weeks after receiving their diplomas, college graduates are struggling to find jobs to help repay student loans. In Vermont, a typical student has racked up $28,000 in debts after four years in college. Compounding the problem, federal student loan rates are set to double on July 1. Sen. Bernie Sanders is drafting legislation that would reform how students pay for higher education. He also is working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who introduced legislation that would ensure students are offered the same loan rates the Fed gives big banks on Wall Street: 0.75 percent. Watch Sen. Sanders discuss student debt here: http://youtu.be/sJbOXfuuJCA Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=1CA3164D-C65C-4765-BEBE-8AB4C66B5AFA
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  71. Sen. Sanders talks about the NSA's domestic surveillance programs on All In with Chris Hayes: http://youtu.be/GCrnzd-tNgg
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  72. Senator Sanders talks with Stephanie Cutter, Newt Gingrich and Senator John Hoeven about filibuster reform on CNN's Crossfire: Crossfire
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  73. Sen. Sanders speaks out on student debt: http://youtu.be/sJbOXfuuJCA
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  74. Sen. Sanders talks about the need to raise the minimum wage: http://youtu.be/vERAUcFdU1A
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  75. VIDEO: Sen. Bernie Sanders talks with Chris Hayes about the climate change crisis: http://youtu.be/SIpOAw6QY8Y
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  76. An Offer They Can't Refuse: http://youtu.be/nq46hA3Hr8Q
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  77. What's Next? What's Next?
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  78. Republican Obstructionists: Republicans on the Senate environment committee on Thursday blocked a vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “The American people want this government to function. This type of obstructionism is enormously anti-democratic,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.  The latest Republican stalling tactic came one day after Republicans on Wednesday delayed for the second time in two weeks a vote on the nomination of Tom Perez to head the Department of Labor. Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/BbBhL-HWcEU Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=45B02AC6-98F1-4D49-9DA3-C7E3D2388D1D
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  80. Sanders on the State of the Union: http://youtu.be/Lz6zlWKmAjs
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  81. Help for the Unemployed: http://youtu.be/ZN0W0-ssSsc
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  82. Take Sen. Sanders' latest poll on student loan rates here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/ Watch Sen. Sanders talk about student loan rates here: http://youtu.be/C3edX202Ya0
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  83. NSA Out of Control: http://youtu.be/1xw880PCewE
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  84. Veterans Day:  In 1865 – barely a month before the end of the Civil War – President Lincoln uttered the words which would solidify our nation’s commitment to those who have served and have become the motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Lincoln committed our nation to “care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”  As we honor our nation’s veterans today, we must realize the important debt we owe them, a debt we can never truly repay.  Watch Sen. Sanders: http://youtu.be/o_4sVbgAbC0 Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/veterans-day-2013
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  85. Reopen the Government, Pay Our Bills: http://youtu.be/7E7oKss8LCk
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  86. Sens. Bernie Sanders and David Vitter hold different views on health care. Sanders supports a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system to provide better care for more people at less cost. Sanders also has been a champion of expanding community health centers in Vermont and across the country to provide affordable primary care, dental care, low-cost prescription drugs and mental health counseling. On Wednesday, the two senators debated health care on CNN’s Crossfire. Watch the interview: http://youtu.be/2QeQ5mG5eK0
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  87. VIDEO: Sen. Sanders talks with CNN about fighting rising home heating prices: http://youtu.be/3SHLPsjIcH0 Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/as-propane-prices-soar-congressional-delegation-seeks-emergency-export-curbs
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  88. U.S. Spies on Americans: http://youtu.be/ILyTI99TOlo Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=e7155563-59dc-486e-b888-a6c5e61468e7
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  89. Sen. Sanders talks with MSNBC's Alex Witt about the need to extend unemployment insurance: http://youtu.be/pEGMiUkG6h4
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  90. A Victory for Workers:  Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday welcomed a White House announcement that President Obama will sign an executive order setting the minimum wage for workers under new federal contracts at $10.10 an hour. The White House also said the president would discuss the issue in tonight’s State of the Union address. “I applaud President Obama for issuing this executive order which will raise wages for hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers. The president has made it clear that employees working for government contractors should not be paid starvation wages. This executive order also gives us momentum for raising the minimum wage for every worker in this country to at least $10.10 an hour,” Sanders said. “I applaud President Obama for issuing this executive order which will raise wages for hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers. The president has made it clear that employees working for government contractors should not be paid starvation wages. This executive order also gives us momentum for raising the minimum wage for every worker in this country to at least $10.10 an hour,” Sanders said. The senator in September sent a letter to the president urging him to issue an executive order to setting a minimum wage for federal contractors. Sanders also is a cosponsor of Senate legislation to raise the minimum wage for all workers to $10.10 from the current $7.25 an hour. Watch Sanders discuss the minimum wage on C-SPAN's Washington Journal: http://youtu.be/lo_TgR__SVQ
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  91. Shutdown Showdown: http://youtu.be/suly1mahTSc
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  92. Majority Rule in the Senate: http://youtu.be/wW1BYtA1m2Q Senators on Thursday voted to make it harder for the minority to block confirmation of the president's nominees for judges and other top posts. "Most Americans grew up believing that in America the majority rules," Sen. Bernie Sanders said. "They also believe that this country deserves a Senate which is not dysfunctional and unable to address the needs of the American people. Unfortunately, in recent years the Republican minority has engaged in an unprecedented level of obstructionism. They have used the filibuster hundreds of times to delay or block the president’s nominees and to stop legislation from even being considered. Today’s decision by the Senate to let the majority rule on votes to confirm judges, cabinet secretaries and other senior administration officials is a step in the right direction toward ending dysfunction in Senate." Watch Sen. Sanders here: http://youtu.be/wW1BYtA1m2Q
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  93. Sen. Sanders talks about his fight for a fair budget: http://youtu.be/AWW8czVcRxY
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  94. Failed Trade Policy: http://youtu.be/BnSWQVGJ5O0
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  95. What if Nixon Had the NSA? President Obama said Friday that he would require intelligence agencies to obtain permission from a secret court before tapping into a vast trove of telephone data. The president also directed America's intelligence agencies to stop spying on friendly international leaders. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a leading critic of the massive surveillance operations by the NSA. Interviewed afterward on CNN, Sanders said there was a need to balance Americans’ constitutional right against unreasonable searches with the need to thoroughly investigate instances when intelligence or law enforcement agencies have a reasonable suspicion of a potential terrorist plot. Watch Sen. Sanders on CNN: http://youtu.be/6EQzS6qB2zg
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  96. NSA Spying:  Did the National Security Agency spy on elected officials? What should the legal consequences be for Edward Snowden for leaking classified documents that exposed the NSA’s massive surveillance of Americans’ telephone, email and Internet records?  The NSA has not yet directly responded to a letter from Sen. Bernie Sanders asking if members of Congress were part of its dragnet. The agency, however, did not rule it out in a statement to journalists. Sanders discussed the surveillance in interviews on Monday with CNN and WPTZ-TV. “Are we a quote unquote free society, which we tout ourselves to be, we claim to be, if the United States government knows every phone call you've made, knows where you are, has the capability of intercepting your emails and knows the websites that you've visited. Is that what a free society is about?” Sanders said. Watch the interview here: http://youtu.be/o3zIRHjlEok Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/nsa-spying
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  97. Budget Bill Sent to White House:  The Senate on Wednesday evening passed and sent to President Obama a budget that averts another government shutdown, eases sharp spending cuts known as sequestration and spares Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from proposed cuts in benefits. In what he called a difficult decision, Sen. Bernie Sanders voted with the 64 - 36 majority to pass the budget. He voiced disappointment that it does nothing to create jobs and continues tax breaks for profitable corporations. His decision to vote for the bill boiled down to a choice between the “lesser of two evils,” Sanders said in an interview minutes after the vote with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz. Watch the interview: The Lesser of Two Evils
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  98. Billion Dollar Disasters: http://youtu.be/2qyQFwL01tk
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  99. Student Loan Debt: http://youtu.be/GoRKx5VekCU Read the release here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=89B31CBC-9DF7-431D-B8F0-F69A128F79BC
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  100. Sen. Sanders talks with Thomas Roberts about the minimum wage and the Affordable Care Act: http://youtu.be/dpjEuYEQ7X0
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  101. Immigration Reform:  The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance an immigration reform bill. The legislation would open the door to citizenship for 11 million people living in the United States. By a vote of 82-15, the bill overcame the first procedural hurdle in a debate expected to last throughout June. Sen. Bernie Sanders supports a path to citizenship and he supports the DREAM Act. He strongly objects, however, to big corporations using the bill as a way to lower wages and benefits for American workers. “I want to see comprehensive immigration reform passed,” he said, “but at a time when nearly 14 percent of Americans do not have a full-time job and when the middle class is working longer hours for lower wages, I oppose a massive increase in temporary guest worker programs that will allow large corporations to import hundreds of thousands of blue-collar and white-collar workers from overseas.” Watch the speech here: http://youtu.be/w4h1PVE5alw
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  102. Sen. Sanders talks about his bill to tax carbon: http://youtu.be/3hXqbh4jAyM  Take Sen. Sanders new poll on climate change here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/climate-change
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  103. Fighting For a Fair Budget: http://youtu.be/AWW8czVcRxY
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  104. A Political Crisis: http://youtu.be/6LC_4h8rk9E?t=6s
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  105. Watch Sen. Sanders talk about unemployment insurance on msnbc: http://youtu.be/1HOBw5d8i6Y
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  106. VIDEO: NSA Snooping: http://youtu.be/s4jdE3fks1Q
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  107. Say No to the Chained CPI: http://youtu.be/vGik2JFc8V8
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  108. Members of a House and Senate budget conference committee held their first meeting Wednesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders said jobs and the economy should be a top priority. He also said there must be no cuts in benefits for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. He said those priorities are shared by overwhelming majorities of the American public. “At a time when less than 10 percent of the American people approve of the job that Congress is doing, it’s time that we started to listen to what the American people want us to do,” Sanders said at the session: http://youtu.be/2JPI9Z21PZ4 Read more here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/listen-american-people-10-30-2013
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  109. VIDEO: Sen. Sanders responds to a new deal to change student loan rates: http://youtu.be/kLR4kqQKNLk
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  110. Social Security is Not Going Broke: http://youtu.be/wqcyTo4vI-c
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  111. Sanders on Syria: http://youtu.be/ynEU9dIDNJw Weigh in here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/polls/
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  112. Senator Ted Cruz's Perilous Path: Cruz's Perilous Path
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  113. Social Security Summit: Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday brought together seniors and veterans organizations and other members of Congress for a Capitol summit meeting to protest proposed cuts in Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits. “There are fair ways to reduce deficit but balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the children and the poor are not among them,” Sanders said. Watch highlights from the summit: http://youtu.be/KAFLMqpPeXs Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=47367A72-FB11-4275-9034-A4AD50E0ED2E
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  114. Dental Crisis in America: http://youtu.be/vhIwtMLEGrM A Senate panel heard today that millions of Americans do not have access to dentists because of skyrocketing costs and inadequate insurance coverage. “We can and must address the dental crisis in America now,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said at the outset of the hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, which he chairs. A new report prepared by the Government Accountability Office said Americans spent about $108 billion on dentists in 2011. Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=1ADF369E-5453-4EA5-AE44-E9AE50177A75
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  115. Budget Pact:  Key congressional budget negotiators reached agreement Tuesday evening on a two-year plan to restore about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a member of the special Senate and House budget committee, which still must go along with the deal before the full House and Senate consider the legislation. Interviewed by Chris Hayes on MSNBC not long after the agreement was outlined, Sanders assessed the pros – no cuts in Social Security or Medicare, Saturday mail survives – and the cons – corporations keep their tax loopholes, no jobs program, no extension of expiring benefits for the long-term unemployed. Watch Sen. Sanders on MSNBC: http://youtu.be/8zl1iswtDHE
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  116. The Crisis at Home: http://youtu.be/nQS7Dnvyg60
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  117. War on Working Families:  With a government shutdown looming, the House set a Friday vote on a stopgap spending measure to run the government through Dec. 15. The continuing resolution would take away funds to implement the new Obamacare health care program. It also would extend automatic spending cuts, the so-called sequestration, in programs like Head Start and Meals on Wheels. “We are looking at a real effort to dismantle the United States government and wreak havoc on the lives of millions and millions of people,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech. He discussed the budget showdown with radio host Ed Schultz. Then, later on  Thursday, the House narrowly voted to cut funds for food stamps. The senator talked about that moments after the vote with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC. Watch Sen. Sanders on MSNBC: http://youtu.be/4oZp_BXz0qc
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  118. Who Pays? http://youtu.be/bs8ioGX4nUA
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  119. Student Loan Rates Doubled: Student Loan Rates Doubled
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  120. Remembering Martin Luther King: http://youtu.be/xwrAro2XEG4
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  121. Seize the Moment: http://youtu.be/iWDoQgR-9L0 Headed into a meeting of senators with President Obama in the Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday said he hopes the president seizes an opportunity to rid Syria of chemical weapons and avert a military attack by the United States. “What I want to hear from the president is that he recognizes that the overwhelming majority of the American people do not want to get sucked into a war in Syria,” Sanders said on CNN.
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  122. Don't Double Student Loan Rates: http://youtu.be/pQnBcFt0iw8
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  123. Capitol Hill Gunshots: http://youtu.be/H_uwzef8nAA?t=6s
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