Statement on Hobby Lobby Decision From Senator Bernie Sanders
From www.sanders.senate.gov:Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized a “very troubling” Supreme Court ruling today that lets some business owners opt out of an Affordable Care Act requirement that they cover...
View ArticleFederal Highway Trust Fund Going Broke In August?
From sanders.senate.govTuesday July 8, 2014The federal Highway Trust Fund is expected to go broke in early August unless Congress comes up with a new source of revenue to augment the federal gasoline...
View ArticleDo We Want a Political Revolution in Our Nation?
Here is an opportunity to share some ideas with Senator Bernie Sanders. He is asking for ideas on how we make a political revolution and how to bring large numbers of people together. If you go to...
View ArticleEnd LGBT Discrimination in the Workplace
Senator Bernie Sanders has stepped up once again.Back in March, Sanders and 200 other members of Congress urged President Obama to act alone and issue an executive order, while the Republicans...
View ArticleSenator Bernie Sanders On Corporate Desertion In Our Nation
This man keeps FIGHTING!!From sanders.senate.gov:Saturday, July 19, 2014Corporate Deserters The pharmaceutical giant AbbVie agreed on Friday to buy its European rival, Shire, and reincorporate in...
View ArticleSenator Sanders Has A Message For Postmaster General Donahoe
From sanders.senate.gov:Friday, July 25, 2014Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers. He drew standing ovations from the big...
View ArticleSanders - Miller VA Reform Legislation Going To President Obama!
Who would have thought that Senator Bernie Sanders (Chair, Senate VA Committee)could negotiate such a deal with Rep Jeff Miller (Chair, House VA Committee), in such a way that the final vote in the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders to Chair Senate Budget Committee?
From sanders.senate.gov:Wednesday, August 13, 2014Senator SandersBudget Gavel Jockeying already is under way among lawmakers from both parties to lead the Senate Budget Committee in the next Congress....
View ArticleBernie Sanders Responds To Ferguson
"When you see the kind of force that's been used in Ferguson, it really does make it appear that the police department there is an occupying army in a hostile territory and that is absolutely not what...
View ArticleSkyrocketing Generic Drug Prices -- Bernie Sanders and Elijah Cummings...
What's going on with generic drug prices? This is a story that needs more media attention.From sanders.senate.gov:Congress Investigating Why Generic Drug Prices Are SkyrocketingThursday, October 2,...
View ArticleThe Checklist
What kind of a Democratic Party platform do we want?What kind if a nation do we want?What kind of a leader do we want?Here's a checklist (my fellow Kossacks may feel free to add more).If you...
View ArticleA CALL FOR ACTION: Can We Have A Bernie Sanders Rally In Brooklyn At The...
Is it time for a Bernie Sanders Homecoming Rally in Brooklyn, at the Barclay Center?(Bernie is originally from Brooklyn.)One that would take place with a crowd of say, 18,000-20,000?Bernie can get more...
View ArticleHey, Maybe This is in Itself a Diary and Thread......
OK - time for a little Saturday Night Opinion / Speculation / Wild Circus Forum.Here's the question.Who is helped more if VP Biden jumps into the race, and why?http://www.nytimes.com/...I think this...
View ArticleRoll Call For The Progressive Slate
OK - this is not much of a diary. I am asking the Kos community to tell everyone here about any progressive Democrats they might happen to know about who are running for congressional seats or state...
View ArticleJeff Merkley (D - OR) Endorses Bernie Sanders!
I certainly could not say any of this any better. And this comes before the OR mail in your ballot primary later this month.From the NY Times:www.nytimes.com/...
View ArticleDid Hilary Clinton's Private Email Server Jeopardize National Security?
Yes — fellow Democrats — we need to go there.Here is what H.A. Goodman had to say about it today:xYouTube Video
View ArticleThe White House Confirmed This And Now A Federal Judge Confirmed This...
My fellow Democrats of all ideological backgrounds, we need to go there.FOOD FOR THOUGHT:Yesterday, a federal judge confirmed a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s...
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