In 2015, the Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. In 2010, he gave an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster-like speech on the Senate floor in opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy. While in the Senate, Sanders has fought tirelessly for working class Americans against the influence of big money in politics. Known as a “practical and successful legislator,” Sanders served as chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs where he authored and passed the most significant veteran health care reform bill in recent history.
In 2006, Sanders defeated the richest man in Vermont to win a seat in the U.S. He was re-elected for eight terms, during which he voted against the deregulation of Wall Street, the Patriot Act, and the invasion of Iraq. In 1990, Sanders was elected to the House of Representatives as the first Independent in 40 years and joined the Democratic caucus. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, child care, women’s rights, youth programs and the arts. In 1983, Bernie was re-elected by a 21 point margin with a record amount of voter turnout. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington as an Independent by a mere 10 votes, shocking the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor. In August of 1963, Sanders took an overnight bus as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech firsthand at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Īfter graduation, Bernie moved to Vermont where he worked as a carpenter and documentary filmmaker. While attending the University of Chicago, a 20-year-old Sanders led students in a multi-week sit-in to oppose segregation in off-campus housing owned by the university as a Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) officer. His father came to the United States from Poland at the age of 17 without much money or a formal education. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.īernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents and grew up in a small, rent-controlled apartment. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S.
Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. He is serving his second term in the U.S. ★ → The campaign’s official social media organizing toolīernie Sanders is a Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
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