Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders is a U.S. Senator from Vermont. He also served 16 years in the House of Representatives making him the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Bernie Sanders was born in 1941 in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago. After visa mer graduating in 1964, he moved to Vermont. In 1981, he was elected to the first of four terms as mayor of Burlington. Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress. Throughout his career he has focused on the shrinking American middle class and the growing income and wealth gaps in the United States. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Sanders in 2014 passed legislation reforming the VA health care system. Sanders was tapped by Senate leadership to be the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He also serves on the Environment and Public Works Committee, where he has focused on global warming and rebuilding our nation's crumbling infrastructure. He is a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he has championed efforts to transform our energy system from fossil fuels to renewable power sources like solar and wind. Sanders also sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, where he has fought for greater access to affordable health care and improved education programs from pre-K to college Sanders' campaign against Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 U.S. presidential nomination raised more money in small, individual contributions than any other in American history, and helped him rise to international recognition. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) Full name: Bernard Sanders; known as Bernie Sanders
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Verk av Bernie Sanders
The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class (2011) 202 exemplar
Bernie Sanders: In His Words 2 exemplar
Sfidare il capitalismo (Italian Edition) 1 exemplar
Es ist okay, wütend auf den Kapitalismus zu sein: »Das Buch der Stunde« DER SPIEGEL (2023) 1 exemplar
Where Do We Go From Here 1 exemplar
Bernie Sanders: Q&A 1 exemplar
Discurso: Sobre la codicia de las grandes empresas y el declive de la clase media (Spanish Edition) (2016) 1 exemplar
America Needs Denmark's "Solidarity System" 1 exemplar
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Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America (2012) — Förord — 62 exemplar
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (2017) — Förord — 40 exemplar
Verso 2015 Mixtape — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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Brooklyn, New York, USA - Utbildning
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James Madison High School, Brooklyn, New York, USA - Yrken
- Mayor (Burlington, Vermont, USA, 1981-1989)
U.S. Congressman (Vermont, 1991-2007, Independent)
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- U.S. House of Represenatives
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- Full name: Bernard Sanders; known as Bernie Sanders
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