Bernie Sanders, a former Socialist, is a registered Independent, but he always votes with the Democrats.
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Vermont's Bernie Sanders, an independent, voted to organize the Senate for the Democrats, to no surprise.
The two Independent Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), voted in support of the proposal.
His amendment received every Republican vote but it was defeated with 55 Democrats (plus Socialist Bernie Sanders) voting no.
Thanks to the socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, we get to see what the Fed is up to.
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Senator BERNIE SANDERS (Independent, Vermont): Well, I think any sane human being has got to be concerned about climate change.
One notion not in this bill but proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders (Socialist--Vt.) would cap credit card interest rates at 15%.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, for example, has said that he will attempt to block the nomination when it comes to a vote.
The last talking filibuster was by Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, who spoke for more than eight hours against a tax bill in 2010.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently introduced an amendment to block chained CPI.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said December 2 that he plans to place a "hold" on Bernanke's nomination for a second term once it leaves the Banking Committee.
The employers' group is adamantly opposed, for example, to a proposal by Rep. Bernie Sanders , (I-Vt.) backed by the Communications Workers of America, AARP and AFL-CIO.
And congressman Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist from Vermont, said that they might be right, they might be wrong, but in any case, this is not going to happen.
Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor to make the case against deepening the deficit and widening the income gap in America by extending Bush-era tax breaks for the very wealthy.
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Bernie Sanders, Nick Naylor is calling your office.
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Bernie Sanders and 29 Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is leading the effort to blend the bills of two committees the Finance Committee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
To folks like Bernie Sanders, the question of tax incidence seems to boil down to a question of multiplication: assume that incomes will remain constant as the tax rates increase, then just give the government its extra 5% or 10%.
Bernie Sanders is right that Jack Lew shows little indication of ever stepping through the looking glass to confront the monster within or of turning inward to reconsider what lurks behind his own romantic vision of all those borrowed billions.
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The expectation is that, because Vermont is such a strongly Democratic state, leaving the Republican Party probably won't hurt him all that much back in his home state--at least that's what most people familiar with Vermont politics believe, including, by the way Representative Bernie Sanders, who is Vermont's independent member of the House of Represenatives.
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