I would like to thank all my colleagues for being here with me this morning, and for joining me in introducing this very important bill — a bill which would prevent any funds from being used for a war with Iran without Congressional approval. In the Senate this bill is…

Read a fact sheet on College For All here. Read the legislative text here. Read a fact sheet on the Inclusive Prosperity Act to raise revenue for the proposal here. I don’t often use this phrase but we are, in fact, offering a “revolutionary” proposal — a proposal that will…

Let me thank my good friends Representatives Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky, Ro Khanna, Mark Takano, and Ilhan Omar for joining me today, and all of the groups that are here with us this afternoon. Today, we want to discuss an issue that gets very little attention in Congress or the…

Senator Bernie Sanders contributed an essay to a new Brennan Center publication, “Ending Mass Incarceration: Ideas from Today’s Leaders.” The essay is below: The United States imprisons more people than any other country on earth. Year after year, we continue to exceed every nation — including authoritarian governments like China…

Let me begin by thanking the Sunrise organization for all the great work you are doing and thank the young people in this country for leading the effort against climate change. Also let me thank Howard University for hosting us here on your beautiful campus. I understand that Howard celebrated…

Today’s modern-day loan sharks are no longer lurking on street corners, threatening violence to collect their payments. Today’s loan sharks wear expensive suits and work on Wall Street, where they make hundreds of millions of dollars in total compensation by charging sky-high fees and usurious interest rates, and head financial…

In the United States, we pay a whole lot of attention to issues impacting the economy, healthcare, education, environment, criminal justice, immigration and, as we have recently seen, Supreme Court nominees. These are all enormously important issues. With the exception of immediate and dramatic crises, however, foreign policy is not…

Delivered on the Senate floor June 12, 2018 Mr. President, I take this opportunity to thank Senators Reed and McCain for their very hard work on the Department of Defense authorization bill. Unfortunately, I must vote against it, and I want to take this opportunity to explain why I…

Amid rampant inequality in America, Disney workers’ fight for a living wage could serve as inspiration for others — I recently went to Anaheim, California, the home of Disneyland. I wasn’t there to take my grandchildren to meet Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse or have them go on the rides. I was there to attend a rally with 2,000 Disney workers who are being ruthlessly exploited by Disney, an…