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• in Politics
  How Did The Debt Talk Collapse?
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  The Choice Is Yours Mr. President
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bernie sanders”

 

• With Gas Prices, It’s ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’

  
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  Originally published on CitizenVox You might think that the declining price of gasoline means that we don’t have to pay attention to all that talk about oil speculation driving up the price of oil. Right? Wrong. Even though the price of gas has fallen, you’re still lining the pockets of Wall Street every time ...
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• Senate Approves Broader FDA Fees

  
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  By THOMAS M. BURTON and COREY BOLES The Senate voted Thursday to expand the number of drug companies that must pay the Food and Drug Administration to review new products and gave the agency new powers to regulate drug supplies. The renewal of an existing law would require drug and medical device companies to pay ...
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• Picture This: Is Social Security Working?

  
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  Bernie Sanders thinks so .
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• Polluter Welfare

  
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  From CREDO Action: How much money will you give to the fossil fuel industry today? A lot — even if you dont fill up your gas tank. $30 million of our tax dollars go to oil, coal and gas polluters every day in the form of subsidies, tax breaks and loopholes. Two weeks ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Keith ...
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• Fixing the Fed: Dismiss Dimon, Boot the Bankers, and Can the Corporations

  
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  Theres a growing chorus of calls for Jamie Dimon, CEO of troubled JPMorgan Chase, to resign from the Board of the New York Federal Reserve. The latest JPMorgan Chase scandal, combined with Dimons hypocrisy and relentless self-promotion, make him an obvious source for concern. But hes hardly alone in his conflict of ...
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• Bill to End Conflict of Interest at Federal Reserve Is First Step to Operationalizing Fed Audit

  
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  Sens. Bernie Sanders wants to prevent bankers conflict of interest at Federal Reserve Elizabeth Warren has been talking about the conflict of interest inherent in having Jamie Dimon sit on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Timothy Geithner even recognizes a problem , though he ...
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• Two senators want bank executives banned from Fed boards

  
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  U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Bernie Sanders proposed a bill Tuesday that would block employees of banks regulated by the Federal Reserve from serving on the Feds board of governors. read more
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• The Smart Way to Cut Prescription Drug Prices

  
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  How can the U.S. lower the cost of prescription medicines? One of our senators has a smart and appealing plan. read more
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• The Smart Way to Cut Prescription Drug Prices

  
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  How can the U.S. lower the cost of prescription medicines? One of our senators has a smart and appealing plan. read more
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• Progressive Party of Vermont Organizing Slate of Candidates for 2012

  
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  The Progressive Party of Vermont is arguably one of the most successful state-level third parties in the United States, having elected multiple State Senators, State Representatives, etc. Now, the Progressive Party of Vermont is organizing its slate of candidates , especially statewide candidates, for 2012. On the ...
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• Let’s end polluter welfare

  
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  By Sen. Bernie Sanders Sen. Bernie Sanders rallies supporters of the End Polluter Welfare Act. At a time when we have more than $15 trillion in national debt, American taxpayers are set to give away over $110 billion to the oil, gas, and coal industries over the next decade. Clearly, we cannot afford it. The ...
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• Prizes, Not Patents, For Drug Discovery?

  
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  Once again, Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, is proposing legislation that would eliminate market exclusivity for new AIDS drugs and, instead, would give a drug developer a prize from a $3 billion annual fund that would be supported by insurers and the federal government. The proposal was the ...
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• If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy  , by  Robert Rapier

  
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  I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constantly shifting legislation makes it very difficult ...
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• Bernie and the Billionaire, Bread and Circuses

  
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  View Video Love this speech from Bernie Sanders, amazingly the first self-described ‘socialist’ in the Senate if Wikipedia is correct. I wish there were more politicians brave enough to say this – sadly the currently corporate funding and lobbying system here and abroad means they’re very unlikely to do so ...
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• JPMorgan $2B trading loss expected to dominate hearing on bank oversight

  
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  The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase should feature prominently Wednesday when lawmakers debate how best to regulate banks big enough to bring down the broader financial system. The House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on a key tenet of the 2010 regulatory overhaul was scheduled well ...
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• A New Way To Mitigate The Flood Of Corporate Money Into Our Political System?

  
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  According to a new survey by Pew , the Supreme Court is held in greater contempt by Americans than in anytime in the last quarter century. After a favorability rating as high as 80%, as the court has become more and more corporately oriented and more obviously partisan and more obviously in thrall to the one percent, ...
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• Nuclear Energy is Not a Mature Industry

  
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  Senator Bernie Sanders is using Grist Magazine to lobby against government assistance for nuclear energy on the grounds that it’s a mature industry. I might agree with him if it really were a mature industry and if renewables really could carry the day without it. But it isn’t, and renewables can’t. It always ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chart: Rachel Maddow and Sen. Bernie Sanders are right. The gender pay gap is real.

  
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  Via the DCCC : “Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly all occupations.” The reason it’s necessary to repeat that Rachel is right is that she was in a heated debate with a very condescending Alex Castellanos on Meet the Press who insisted she was wrong. The pay gap is real. ...
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• A Progressive Budget

  
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  Here is a budget proposal from Bernie Sanders that I can agree with: We can achieve deficit reduction in a way that is fair and that doesn’t require decimating the social programs that millions of working families depend on:  1) The Wealthy and Large Corporations Must Pay Their Fair Share   —By cracking ...
  4 weeks ago

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