Senator Sanders’ long day: "We can do better."
Sen. Bernie Sanders deserves mad props for spending a long, long day "reminding the world that lack of jobs and declining incomes are bad things." Here's how he began:
"I am simply here today to take as long as I can to explain to the American people the fact that...
PolitiFact: Sanders telling the truth on vast income inequality
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been holding a mock filibuster today (mock, because he's not actually blocking a measure scheduled for a vote on the floor), with welcome help from Sens. Sherrod Brown and Mary Landrieu. It might not be the real thing, but it's been powerful in laying out the progressive case against this...
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Sanders vows to fight millionaire tax cut deal
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on MSNBC earlier today, saying that he will "do whatever it takes, certainly including a filibuster" to defeat the millionaire tax cut deal reached by President Obama and Senate Republicans:
Sanders addressed the claim that this is just a temporary deal:
I understand that the President...
Sanders: Dems must stand firm on tax cuts for middle-class, not millionaires
In an interview with Chris Hayes on The Rachel Maddow Show, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders had some simple but powerful advice for Democrats: stand strong, fight for what you believe in, and take control of the debate, starting with extending tax cuts for the middle-class -- not millionaires and billionaires:
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Open thread for night owls: Sanders on Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders writes a prescription that can't be repeated often enough:
 First, let's be clear: despite all the right-wing rhetoric, Social Security is not going bankrupt. That's a lie! The truth is that the Social Security Trust Fund has run surpluses for the last...
Financial Reform passes SenateIn a vote of 59-39, the Senate passed the financial reform bill. At the last moment, Wall Street got another win. They convinced Sen. Brownback to pull his car-dealer protection act so that the Merkley-Levin Volker rule amendment would also be withdrawn. Since it had been attached as a second degree amendment to Brownback, it's... Wall Street reform gets better, but isn’t done yetYglesias calls it the "incredible growing FinReg bill", and he's right. Buoyed by some good ol' fashioned populist anger at Wall Street, some Democrats have been successfully pushing hard to strengthen the bill. While Republicans have been doing the best to drag their feet to slow the process down, they aren't by any means... Dean Baker: “Unwashed Masses 1, Fed 0″He also says, "Sanders Scores" in achieving a compromise with the White House to get his Fed audit amendment.
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