“I’ve told the people of my state for 20 years that I’m an independent and I don’t want to come down here and suddenly become a Democrat.”
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Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He 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 nomi…
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Not if we have the opportunity to describe what democratic socialism means. ... You have countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway ... which have had social democratic governments. ... In those countries, healthcare is a right for all people. ... Tuition is free. ... In those countries, governments are working for the middle class, rather than the billionaire class.
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2026· 43 entries
“Not if we have the opportunity to describe what democratic socialism means. ... You have countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway ... which have had social democratic governments. ... In those countries, healthcare is a right for all people. ... Tuition is free. ... In those countries, governments are working for the middle class, rather than the billionaire class.”
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“There is much to do, and for an Independent there is no established trail to follow”
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“Economic rights are human rights.”
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“s authority in order to consolidate more power with the U.S. military. Sanders also said that Trump is trying to wrest control from the judicial and legislative branch of government as well as stamp out universities”
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“They were very pleased to be Jews, but didn”
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“s nomination if it was offered, but Boston mayor Marty Walsh was chosen for the position instead. When announcing Walsh”
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“we must end global oligarchy”
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“delighted to welcome a person who I think we”
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“We feel it is an intolerable situation when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university-owned apartments.”
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New York Post: Abdul El-Sayed reveals he would take socialist plan a 'step further' than Bernie Sanders for key US industry
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Perú 21: Rafael Belaúnde y Bernie Navarro abordan llegada de los F-16, preparación ante El Niño y cooperación espacial
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WPTZ: Sen. Bernie Sanders, DFA plant workers rally to keep St. Albans Creamery open
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Newser: Bernie Sanders: Here's Why Progressives Are Winning
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wcax.com: Sanders joins dairy workers picketing DFA’s St. Albans plant closure
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NBC4 WCMH-TV: Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Perry County flood zone - NBC4 WCMH-TV
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nycaribnews.com: March On Washington Includes Bernie Saunders, AOC, Organized by NAN
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Yahoo Finance: Bernie Sanders pushes to end Social Security garnishments for student debt: What to know
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Agencia Andina: Canciller Carlos Espá y embajador de EE. UU. en el Perú, Bernie Navarro, brindan conferencia sobre resultados de viaje de trabajo a Miami
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Clarin.com: Oficial y confirmado: un proyecto de Bernie Sanders busca impedir recortes del Seguro Social por deudas estudiantiles
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WHIZ: Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Crooksville after historic flood - WHIZ - Fox 5 / Marquee Broadcasting
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10TV: Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Perry County residents, businesses impacted by flooding
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The Guardian: Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
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ohiocapitaljournal.com: Open letter to Ohio US Sen. Bernie Moreno: Haitian parents love their children too
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MS NOW: Danny Glover on Bernie Sanders' 2020 Campaign
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MS NOW: ‘Bernie’s Back:’ Senator Sanders holds first rally after health scare in New York
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cleveland.com: Sen. Bernie Moreno urges DHS to crack down on Chinese tariff evasion scheme
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WOWK 13 News: Senator Bernie Moreno talks Ohio energy at Kyger Creek Station
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The Hill: Sanders to introduce bill to end Social Security garnishment for student loan debt
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Blavity News: Bernie Sanders' New Bill Would Protect Student Loan Borrowers' Social Security From Garnishment
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WXXV News 25: Pet of the Week: Bernie is looking for a forever home!
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laopinion.com: Bernie Sanders propone ley para proteger al Seguro Social de deudas estudiantiles
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CNBC: Sanders proposes bill to stop Social Security benefit garnishment for unpaid student loans
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Car and Driver: Flavio Briatore (Alpine F1) explica cual es la diferencia entre Bernie Ecclestone y Liberty Media
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“Big Oil is making a $30 million windfall profit every HOUR by using the Iran War as an excuse to rip off commuters at the gas pump. This year, Exxon will be spending $20 billion of its profits on stock buybacks. We must end the Iran War and pass a windfall profits tax — NOW!”
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“In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.”
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“The world’s leading scientists are warning that AI could “end civilization as we know it.” 97% of Americans believe AI safety should be subject to rules. When will our government wake up?! We need global cooperation — before it’s too late.”
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“I enjoyed speaking with hunger and nutrition advocates from Vermont this week. In the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. I thank these advocates for their tireless efforts.”
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“Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies are "deadly serious" about building machines that outperform humans at everything and they don’t know if they’ll be able to control them. So why hasn’t Congress taken meaningful action to regulate AI?”
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“We need healthcare and affordable housing for all Americans, not taxpayer funding for war crimes.”
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“The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.”
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“Trump is considering a large bailout for a multibillionaire dictator while he cuts health care for 15 million Americans. This is insane. The working families of the United States need help, not one of the richest families in the world.”
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“In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages. As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie. Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.”
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2025· 4 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency found U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, owed $1.6 million in unpaid taxes.” Labeled Satire.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's border policies, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, you know, but we should have a secure border and it ain't that hard to do."” Correct Attribution.
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Claimed: ““Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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“moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism”
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2024· 2 entries
Sanders announced his candidacy for a fourth Senate term
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Sanders has vocally opposed Trump's second administration and what he describes as a right-wing oligarchy, organizing rallies against Trump and his allies, especially Elon Musk, as part of an effort to reshape the Democr
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2023· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2023).
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2022· 2 entries
“I think we should move to a system where, if 50% of the workers in a bargaining unit plus one vote to form a union, they have a union. End of discussion.”
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“We have had a good relationship. He wants to be a champion of working families, and I admire that and respect that.”
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2021· 3 entries
Claimed: ““You remember just a few years ago when Trump and my Republican colleagues voted for almost $2 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Snopes rated the claim “In January 2021, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders raised money for Vermont charities by selling apparel featuring a photograph of himself from Inauguration Day.” Mostly True.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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2020· 5 entries
Claimed: “"Three people have more wealth than the bottom half of American society."” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““We are now spending twice as much per person on health care as the people of any other country. That is insane.”” — rated Exaggerated by The Washington Post.
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“s 2020 nomination for president. He had declined the Vermont Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate in 2006, 2012, and 2018, which caused an unsuccessful legal challenge to his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Along with his 2019 campaign announcement, he said he would abide by a new Democratic Party rule for presidential candidates and that he would affirm his membership in that party. On March 5, 2019, he signed a formal statement, known as a”
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His strong showing in early primaries and caucuses made him the front-runner in a large field of Democratic candidates
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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2019· 3 entries
Claimed: ““The Walton family makes more money in one minute than Walmart workers do in an entire year."” — rated Geppetto Checkmark by The Washington Post.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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“s Relection Plan is Based on Dividing the Country”
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2018· 4 entries
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
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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
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Sanders sponsored a bill and was joined by senators Chris Murphy (D–CT) and Mike Lee (R–UT) to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution to end US support for the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, which has resulted
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With 67% of the vote, defeating real estate broker and Republican nominee Lawrence Zupan
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2017· 2 entries
In response to the House vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, he predicted "thousands of Americans would die" from no longer having access to health care
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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2016· 6 entries
Snopes rated the claim “WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Bernie Sanders was threatened to drop out of the presidential race.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Bernie Sanders was forced to endorse Hillary Clinton under DNC rules, but can go on to win a contested convention like FDR (who also endorsed his opponent before winning).” Mixture.
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Claimed: ““Mom is working, Dad is working, and the kids are working, and ... they’re bringing in less disposable income today than a family did with one breadwinner 40 years ago.”” — rated False by FactCheck.org.
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Claimed: “"We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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Sanders voted for the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, which included proposals for a reformed audit of the Federal Reserve System
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Congressional Activism Award (2015).
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“I owe my brother an enormous amount. It was my brother who actually introduced me to a lot of my ideas.”
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Col. Arthur T. Marix Congressional Leadership Award (2014).
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Sanders sponsored the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs in the wake of the Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014
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“s nomination for president on April 30, 2015. His campaign was officially launched on May 26 in Burlington. In his announcement, Sanders said,”
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“s nomination to the Supreme Court, though he added,”
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2013· 4 entries
To reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act, which supports Meals on Wheels and other programs for seniors
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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“. The Inquisitr. Retrieved on 12 October 2013. Americans”
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Supported the Gang of Eight's comprehensive immigration reform bill after securing a $1
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2012· 1 entry
With 71% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee John MacGovern
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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2010· 2 entries
Sanders delivered an 8-hour and 34-minute speech against the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, which proposed extending the Bush-era tax rates
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Supported the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who had been brought to the United States as minors
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2009· 2 entries
Sponsored an amendment to ensure that TARP funds would not displace US workers
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Career landmark: United States senator (2009–2011).
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2008· 1 entry
And 2009, Sanders voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a program to purchase toxic banking assets and provide loans to banks that were in free-fall
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2007· 3 entries
Winning reelection by large margins except during the 1994 Republican Revolution, when he won by 3%, with 50% of the vote
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Sanders helped kill a bill introducing comprehensive immigration reform, arguing that its guest-worker program would depress wages for American workers
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Career landmark: United States senator (2007–2009).
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2006· 2 entries
Becoming the first non-Republican elected to Vermont's Class 1 seat since Solomon Foot, a Whig, in 1850
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“New Vermont Senator not Standard Fare”
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2005· 4 entries
After Senator Jim Jeffords announced that he would not seek a fourth term
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Rolling Stone called Sanders the "amendment king" for his ability to get more roll call amendments passed than any other congressman during the period since 1995, when Congress was entirely under Republican control
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Sanders voted for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
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Career landmark: United States representative (2005–2007).
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (2003–2005).
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2001· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (2001–2003).
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1999–2001).
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Sanders voted and advocated against rolling back the Glass–Steagall legislation provisions that kept investment banks and commercial banks separate entities
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1998· 1 entry
Voted for a bill that would have increased minimum sentencing for possessing a gun while committing a federal crime to ten years in prison, including nonviolent crimes such as marijuana possession
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1997–1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Voted against a bill that would have prohibited police from purchasing tanks and armored carriers
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1995–1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Voted for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act "because it included the Violence Against Women Act and the ban on certain assault weapons
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1993· 2 entries
Sanders voted against the Brady Bill, which mandated federal background checks when buying guns and imposed a waiting period on firearm purchasers in the United States; the bill passed by a vote of 238–187
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Career landmark: United States representative (1993–1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Sanders sponsored the Cancer Registries Amendment Act to establish cancer registries to collect data on cancer
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1991· 4 entries
And 2002, and he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of mostly liberal Democrats that he chaired for its first eight years, while still refusing to join the Democratic Party or caucus
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And five other House members co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus
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Career landmark: United States representative (1991–1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Representing Vermont's at-large congressional district
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1989· 1 entry
Bouricius, a member of the Burlington city council, said that Sanders had "changed the entire nature of politics in Burlington and also in the state of Vermont"
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1988· 3 entries
Incumbent Republican congressman Jim Jeffords decided to run for the U
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“The argument I made was about the power of the Jackson campaign, how he changed the party, opened the door to the election of a black president,”
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Sanders interviewed the mayor of Burlington's sister city Yaroslavl about housing and health care issues in the two cities
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “We Shall Overcome”.
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1986· 1 entry
Sanders, who had finished third in the 1986 Vermont gubernatorial election, announced that he would seek reelection to a fourth term as mayor of Burlington, despite close associates saying that he was tired of being mayo
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1985· 1 entry
Burlington City Hall hosted a foreign policy speech by Noam Chomsky
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1983· 1 entry
The Citizens Party voted unanimously to endorse Sanders, although Sanders ran as an independent
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1982· 1 entry
Announced that he would seek reelection
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1981· 4 entries
As an independent and was reelected three times
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“Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?”
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Campaigned against the unpopular plans by Burlington developer Tony Pomerleau to convert the then-industrial waterfront property owned by the Central Vermont Railway into expensive condominiums, hotels, and offices
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Career landmark: Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981–1989).
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1980· 1 entry
Sanders announced his candidacy for mayor
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary (1855–1926)”.
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1977· 1 entry
Sanders worked as a writer and as the director of the nonprofit American People's Historical Society (APHS)
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1972· 1 entry
And 1976 and as a candidate in the special election for U
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1971· 1 entry
While researching an article for Liberty Union's newspaper Movement, Sanders stayed at Myrtle Hill Farm, a Vermont back to the land commune
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1969· 1 entry
His son (and only biological child), Levi Sanders, was born in 1969 to then-girlfriend Susan Campbell Mott.
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1968· 2 entries
Ran unsuccessful third-party political campaigns in the 1970s
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Moved to Stannard, Vermont, a town small in both area and population (88 residents at the 1970 census) within Vermont's rural Northeast Kingdom region, because he had been "captivated by rural life"
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1964· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago, Bachelor of Arts (1964).
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Brooklyn College (1959–1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Studied at James Madison High School (1954–1958).
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1952· 1 entry
As well as the first socialist elected to the House since Vito Marcantonio, from the American Labor Party, who won his last term in 1948
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1941· 3 entries
Born 1941-09-08.
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In the New York City borough of Brooklyn
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“, The Washington Times Sanders: You have to stop with this. I”
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