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Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders was named the new chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. It’s a position tied closely to many of the issues that Sanders has spent his career working on. Vermont Public’s senior political correspondent Bob Kinzel had a chance to talk with the senator about his priorities for the new session.
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Becca Balint, the first woman to serve as Vermont's Senate president pro tem, has won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in her first statewide campaign.
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Almost one year ago today, a Vermont fashion icon broke upon the world and nearly broke the internet: Sen. Bernie Sanders' mittens.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy will not seek another term in office, planning to retire after serving 48 years in the U.S. Senate. Shortly after that, Rep. Peter Welch announced he would seek Leahy’s Senate seat. It’s a rare Vermont vacancy in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, something that’s only happened a handful of times over the last century.
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After months of talks, President Biden today outlined the details for a compromise social infrastructure plan, with a pared down price tag from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion. But while negotiations have been ongoing with Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, some key provisions of Sen. Bernie Sanders have been eliminated.
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More than a year before the next federal election, all three members of Vermont’s congressional delegation have several million dollars at their disposal, but both Sen. Patrick Leahy and Congressman Peter Welch are not raising money at the same pace as they did in previous cycles.
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Vermont's Congressional delegation — Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Peter Welch — are clashing over the best strategy to pass two important infrastructure bills.
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As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking the lead role in helping Democrats pass a $3.5 trillion budget package over the coming weeks, a package of initiatives described as the Biden Administration’s “human infrastructure bill.”
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Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign has given $350,000 to a think tank established by members of his family.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill making its way through congress. Plus, school enrollment, a gun law upheld, and COVID-19…