October 4, 2018

Video: Bernie Sanders: Enough is enough. Brett Kavanaugh must not be confirmed.

Published on Oct 4, 2018
We are rallying outside the Senate to say: Do we really want to put someone on the Supreme Court who may have sexually assaulted multiple women and lied to Congress? Enough is enough. Brett Kavanaugh must not be confirmed.

October 4, 2018

The President should lead this country in changing the culture, making it easier for women ...

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October 4, 2018

After Disney, Amazon wage hikes, Bernie Sanders targets McDonald's

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https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1047876912926916611

October 4, 2018

Bernie Sanders: As Governor, Ben Jealous will fight for Maryland's workers

Published on Oct 3, 2018
The same ol' same old just ain't good enough. Maryland, this is your guy. It's enormously important that Ben Jealous get elected. Wake your friends up. -Bernie Sanders

October 4, 2018

Video: Get With The Times: Bernie Sanders

Streamed live 10 hours ago
Watch Senator Bernie Sanders and Alex Burns, New York Times National Political Correspondent, for the latest edition of Get With The Times, our spirited live conversation series for college students.

With the mid-term elections just months away, Senator Sanders, the longest-serving independent in congressional history, takes the stage to discuss what's at stake for students in particular, and to amplify the critical importance of voting — regardless of which candidate you support.

October 4, 2018

Bernie just saved this woman from being hit by a car

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October 3, 2018

Ady Barkan Is a True American Hero

Published on Oct 3, 2018
Ady Barkan has been battling terminal ALS, but he's been spending the last year to educate the public on why health care should be a right. He is a true American hero.

October 3, 2018

Video: Bernie Sanders introduces Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Exist Act

Published on Oct 3, 2018

Excerpt:

On the 10th anniversary of the Wall Street bailout, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to break up the nation’s biggest banks and risky financial institutions in order to safeguard the economy and prevent another costly taxpayer bailout. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) will introduce a companion bill in the House.

Today the six largest banks in America control assets equivalent to more than half the country’s GDP and the four largest banks are on average about 80 percent larger today than they were before the bailout. The legislation introduced Wednesday would cap the size of the largest financial institutions so that a company’s total exposure is no more than 3 percent of GDP, about $584 billion today.

By applying a cap on the size of financial institutions, the bill would break up the six largest banks in the country: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The bill would also address large non-bank financial service companies such ase Prudential, MetLife and AIG.

“No financial institution should be so large that its failure would cause catastrophic risk to millions of Americans or to our nation’s economic well being,” Sanders said. “We must end, once and for all, the scheme that is nothing more than a free insurance policy for Wall Street: the policy of ‘too big to fail.’”

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October 3, 2018

Sanders to launch new plan to break up Wall Street giants, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan

October 3 at 11:58 AM

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday is unveiling legislation that would place a hard cap on the size of financial institutions, a proposal that would splinter Wall Street’s biggest firms in an effort to ward off future taxpayer bailouts.

The measure is dead on arrival with a Republican Congress and President Trump in office. And even if the current Democratic Party were to take control of government, it would face a difficult path to passage, as many of the party’s moderates have opted for answers to the banking crisis that did less to alter the financial system.

Sanders’ bill would bar financial institutions from holding assets, derivatives, and other forms of borrowing worth more than 3 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or $584 billion in today’s dollars.

The legislation would force federal regulators to break up six different Wall Street firms — JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley — as well as insurance giants such as Prudential Financial and MetLife. Collectively, the targeted firms hold more than $13 trillion in assets, according to Sanders aides.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/03/sanders-launch-new-plan-break-up-wall-street-giants-including-goldman-sachs-jp-morgan/

October 2, 2018

Cenk Uygur Interviews Bernie Sanders On Jeff Bezos Raising Minimum Wage

Published on Oct 2, 2018

Bernie Sanders fought Jeff Bezos and WON. Cenk Uygur, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.