Senator Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. http://sanders.senate.gov/

U.S. Senate, 2007-present

 

Programs in this Series

Format: 2024-04-25
Format: 2024-04-25
VA Careers - 10/13/2014
 U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert A. McDonald. Want to see more vintage Bernie? Order a copy of our "Positively...
Wealth and Income Inequality - 06/20/2014
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is joined by Bishop Thomas Ely, Rabbi Joshua Chasan, the Rev. Lynn Bujnak, and Monsignor Roland Rivard focussing on wealth and income inequality.       .
Worker-Owned Businesses - 06/02/2014
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is joined by representatives of worker-owned Vermont businesses and Dr. Joseph Blasi, an employee-ownership expert at Rutgers, to announce legislation that Sanders will introduce in the Senate.The  legislation...
Senator Bernie Sanders Announces Legislation to Make College More Affordable - 05/12/2014
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announces legislation to help children from working families go to college. Sanders is joined by Vermonters who will share how carrying heavy student debt loads has affected their lives. Speaking on the issue: Emily...
Primary Care in Vermont - 04/24/2014
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hosts state leaders, Mary Wakefield, who heads the Health Resources and Services Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services, and Associate Administrator Jim Macrae to discuss what the senator has...
Senator Bernie Sanders Town Meeting - 03/30/2014
Four Sites discuss the Robert Reich film "Inequality for All"
Town Meeting on on the NSA and Our Constitutional Rights of Privacy - 02/01/2014
Sen. Sanders host a town meeting in Montpelier on the NSA and our constitutional rights of privacy.  
Town Meeting on Income Inequality - 01/26/2014
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) host a town meeting on income inequality, before the film showing of 'Inequality for All - A Passionate Argument on Behalf of the Middle Class'.  Senator Sanders will lead the town meeting with Vermont...
Bernie Sanders: Wake Up To Climate Change - 01/17/2014
Bernie Sanders: Wake Up To Climate Change
Community Health Center Leaders - 12/04/2013
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) host a meeting of community health center leaders from throughout Vermont followed by Sanders and health center representatives Beth Wennar, Board member from Battenkill Valley Health Center, Eric Medved, Vice...
Dying Young: Why Your Social and Economic Status may be a Death Sentence in America - 11/20/2013
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee on aging, holds a hearing to discuss the extraordinary disparities in life expectancy that exist between regions of the United States and even neighborhoods within cities.
Launch of Solar Testing Site in Vermont - 11/04/2013
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who serves on the Senate energy and environment committees, will be joined on Monday by Gov. Peter Shumlin and representatives of IBM, Sandia National Laboratories, and the U.S. Department of Energy to launch the...
Town Meeting on Veterans Issues - 06/01/2013
Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, joins Deb Amdur, Director of the WRJ VA Medical Center, and others at the VFW in Brattleboro, VT for a public discussion as to how we can best address the needs of Vermont...
Older Americans Summit - 05/23/2013
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other senators are hosting a summit meeting with seniors’ organizations today. Sanders also plans to introduce legislation the same day to reauthorize and strengthen the landmark Older Americans Act which...
Town Hall Meeting with Danish Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen - 05/18/2013
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) holds a Town Hall meeting with Danish Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen to discuss how the people of Denmark enjoy some of the best health care, education, and environmental protection in the world.  The questins is...

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