October 19, 2018

Video: Bernie Sanders rallies with seniors in Bloomington IN for Liz Watson

Published on Oct 19, 2018

October 19, 2018

''I want to see the largest voter turnout in our history this year. ''

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1053332474451775488

October 19, 2018

Video: Bernie Sanders & Nina Turner Rally Bloomington IN with Liz Watson

Published on Oct 19, 2018

October 18, 2018

''I'm hitting the road again because this is the most important midterm election in our lifetimes.''

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1053018220423274498

October 17, 2018

Message from Bernie: Urgent Warning on Climate Change

Published on Oct 17, 2018
We have 12 years left to stop the worst consequences of climate change. This is a crisis that cannot be ignored any longer.

October 17, 2018

''Did you know we once had a Republican president who expanded Social Security?''

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1052605870922784770

October 17, 2018

Cornell Law Professor Assists Sen. Bernie Sanders with 'Too-big-to-fail' Legislation

By Katherine Heaney, Puneet Velidi and John Monkovic

Excerpt:

A Cornell law professor recently helped craft a legislation with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and says that his work on financial institutions was obscure when he started teaching — right before the 2008 financial crisis. Prof. Robert Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law, whose primary research interests are organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics, contributed to Sanders’ “Too-big-to-fail” legislation, which unveiled on Oct. 3. The bill, which was introduced on the 10th anniversary of the Wall Street bailout, calls for large financial institutions to downsize if their total asset portfolio comes out to be about three percent of the U.S. GDP. Until this downsize occurs, they would also be denied access to federal bailout facilities.

“This legislation is really at the core of what I do. I have done a lot of work with Bernie Sanders, as well as with Elizabeth Warren. I helped draft Elizabeth Warren’s bill ‘Accountability in Capitalism’, which she introduced in August. Both senators’ work align with my own academic work,” he said.

Hockett said that if he is “lucky” he will get to continue working with both Sanders and Warren.

“Because Sanders and Warren are both possible presidential candidates, we can view their legislation as good indicators of what they believe the biggest issues will be going forward. These are the issues they determined that people care enough about to vote on the basis of,” Hockett said. “Both believe that the way we organize corporations and banks are both important subjects, likely to be big topics of debate in the midterms and 2020 election.”

https://cornellsun.com/2018/10/16/cornell-law-professor-assists-sen-bernie-sanders-with-too-big-to-fail-legislation/


Erin Schaff / The New York Times

October 15, 2018

Sanders to Bring Back War Powers Resolution to End Unauthorized U.S. Military Involvement in Yemen

Monday, October 15, 2018

BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 15 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday:

"The recent disappearance and likely assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi only underscores how urgent it has become for the United States to redefine our relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

"Since 2015, the Saudi-led war in Yemen has become the world's largest humanitarian disaster. Earlier this year, along with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), I introduced Senate Joint Resolution 54, which uses 1973 War Powers Resolution to compel the Trump administration to withdraw U.S. involvement in this war. This past March, the Senate tabled this resolution by a vote of 55-44. This crisis has only gotten worse since then, and our complicity even greater.

"Next month, I intend to bring SJ Res 54 back for a vote to give the Senate another opportunity to end U.S. support for this catastrophe, to reassert Congressional authority over matters of war, and to show the Saudi government that they do not have a blank check from the United States to continue human rights violations."

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-to-bring-back-war-powers-resolution-to-end-unauthorized-us-military-involvement-in-yemen

October 15, 2018

Photo: Bernie Barn Berner in Vermont.

https://twitter.com/zeldalaflame/status/1051578009164140545

October 14, 2018

''The decisions being made will affect you all for much longer than the ones making the decision''

https://twitter.com/UVMDemocrats/status/1051587434683801600