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Read the full text of Senator Bernie Sanders's statement to Congress on the balancing the budget.
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A White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security. We can and must address our deficit without punishing America’s workers, senior citizens, the disabled, widows and orphans.
While the middle class disappears and more Americans fall into poverty, the wealthiest people in our country are using their wealth and political power to protect their privileged status at everyone else's expense.
Democrats have tried to act "bipartisan" while Republicans got obstructionist, and the Dems are paying for it.
Any Wall Street bailout must also impose tax increases for the wealthy, market reforms and address the needs of middle class Americans caught in the crunch.
The technology exists to solve environmental problems and improve our standard of living.
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The article discusses the author's view that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is undermining basic constitutional rights. The author suggests that Bush has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to disregard core democratic principles. The Patriot Act and Bush's domestic surveillance program are analyzed.
Preserve our nation's core democratic principles by introducing
significant reforms to the Patriot Act.
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Presents a first person narrative of the author's trip to Mexico to evaluate the effect that NAFTA has had on the country. Examples of poverty in Mexico; Living conditions of poor families; Changes that need to be made in NAFTA to help out countries such as Mexico; Amount of jobs that NAFTA caused Americans to lose; Average daily pay of workers in Mexico.
This past November, along with six other members of the US Congress, I visited Mexico on a Teamsters-sponsored trip in order to assess what NAFTA has done to Mexico.
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