Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed reservations about the Twitter ban of former President Donald Trump, saying he doesn’t like the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” wielding too much power. Sanders made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, in which Sanders was asked about Twitter banning Trump from its platform….
Bernie Sanders Not ‘Comfortable’ With Trump’s Twitter Ban
March 24, 2021
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Union Organizer Tells Senators That Amazon Can Afford to Treat Workers Better
An Amazon employee in Alabama who is working to convince fellow workers to unionize told senators on Wednesday that the company can afford to treat its workers better. “Amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. What they don’t tell you is what those jobs are really like. And they certainly don’t tell you…
Amazon Can Afford to Treat Workers Better, Union Organizer Tells Senators
An Amazon warehouse employee in Alabama who is seeking to convince her co-workers to unionize told senators on March 17 that the company can afford to treat its workers better. “Amazon brags it pays workers above the minimum wage. What they don’t tell you is what those jobs are really like. And they certainly don’t…
Amazon Union Battle Arrives in Washington
The push to unionize in an Amazon warehouse in Alabama will be a major focus of a congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Amazon worker Jennifer Bates is slated to testify to the Senate Budget Committee in an 11 a.m. hearing titled “The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.” Bates is an organizer attempting…
Sanders Planning on Passing Infrastructure Bill Without Republican Support
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning on attempting to pass an infrastructure bill by using a budget process to cut out Republicans, even though several Democrat senators have said they won’t support utilizing the method. “One always wants to try to go a bipartisan route. But what I have seen this year and in past…
8 Democrats Join Republicans in Rejecting Sanders’ $15 Minimum Wage Hike Bill
Eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in rejecting raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour over five years after it was proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Angus King (I-Vt.)—who caucuses with…
Sanders Plans to Defy Parliamentarian and Force Vote on $15 Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Monday that the Democrats should defy a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian and vowed to force a vote on to add the $15 minimum wage mandate back into the pandemic relief bill. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had ruled last week that the $15 minimum wage provision could not be enacted…
Sanders Backs GOP Call for No Minimum Wage Hike During Pandemic
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) backed a Republican amendment blocking the raising of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour during the pandemic in Thursday’s late-night Senate “vote-a-rama” session, which involved consideration of multiple amendments to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. Following the nearly 15-hour long marathon session, the Senate approved a…
Sen. Sanders: Democrats Have the Votes to Pass New Relief Bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Democrats now have the votes to pass another COVID-19 relief measure that could include stimulus checks. “Yes, I believe that we do because it’s hard for me to imagine any Democrat, no matter what state he or she may come from, who doesn’t understand the need to go forward right…
Sanders: Senate Dems Could Use Budget Reconciliation to Pass Biden’s $1.9 Trillion CCP Virus Relief Plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman, said Sunday that Senate Democrats may utilize the budget reconciliation process to quickly pass a COVID-19 relief bill, if Republicans refuse to back President Joe Biden’s plans. “We are going to use reconciliation, that is 50 votes in the Senate plus the vice president, to…
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