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Senator Bernie Sanders fights excessive oil speculation (MSNBC)

March 21, 2012

Watch Bernie talk with Ed Schultz on MSNBC about fighting excessive oil speculation.

“There is now more supply available in America today than there was 3 years ago when the price of gas was a $1.90 a gallon. There’s less demand now than there was at any time since 1997. We’re not looking at a supply & demand problem.”

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Super PACs Gone Wild: This Is “Tip of the Iceberg” If Citizens United Isn’t Overturned, Sen. Sanders Warns (Daily Ticker)

March 9, 2012

As of Super Tuesday, so-called Super PACs have spent more than $66 million on the GOP primaries, more than the total Super PAC spending during the entire 2010 midterms, according to The Center for Public Integrity. “You’re looking at the tip of the iceberg,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tells The Daily Ticker. “What people are [...]

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Vermonters Vote to Undo Citizens United (MSNBC)

March 7, 2012

Watch Bernie on Jansing & Co. discussing the fight against Citizens United in Vermont

“The people of Vermont & the people of America are totally disgusted with what they’re seeing in terms of the huge amounts of money that billionaires & corporations are now throwing into the political process.”

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Vermont Voters Back Grassroots Campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood (Democracy Now)

In another “Super Tuesday” vote, some two dozen towns in Vermont called on Congress to push a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling and address the issue of corporate personhood.

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Oil Speculators Must Be Stopped and the CFTC “Needs to Obey the Law” (Daily Ticker)

Watch Bernie discuss curbing oil speculation on The Daily Ticker

“Over 80 % of the oil futures market is controlled not by end users – fuel dealers, airline companies, etc. – it is controlled by oil speculators, led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & others.”

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Pumping fear (MSNBC)

February 29, 2012

Bernie joins Ed Schultz to talk about the real cause of high gas prices.

“The issue is the fact that over 80% of the oil futures market is controlled by speculators. Their function in life is not to purchase oil, not to use oil as an end user – they are not in the trucking business, they’re not in the airline business. Their sole purpose is to speculate and drive prices up and that is exactly what they are doing right now.”

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Republicans less troubled by Republican voter fraud (MSNBC)

February 21, 2012

Watch Bernie on MSNBC talk with Rachel Maddow about fighting voter suppression efforts.

“It’s very clear that what these Republicans want to do is to drive as many people as possible – especially poor people, older people & minorities – out of the political process. And that is just reprehensible.”

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Video: Concerns over aging nuclear plants (CNN)

February 17, 2012

Bernie speaks (at ~3:20) with CNN’s Amber Lyon about his concerns regarding the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

“The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has become a cheerleader for the nuclear industry.”

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Budget battle lines are drawn in D.C. (MSNBC)

February 13, 2012

Watch Bernie talk about President Obama’s budget proposal on MSNBC’s the Ed Show.

“We have to reduce the deficit, we have to create jobs, and the wealthiest people in the country should be asked to play a role in that.”

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The plan for the Post Office (MSNBC)

February 8, 2012

Bernie discusses saving the Postal Service with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz.

“We’re talking about – if these guys get their way – slowing down mail delivery, so that instead of 1 day delivery, it may be 2 or 3, instead of 3 it may be five. If you do that, in my view & the view of many experts, you’re talking about a death spiral, the end of the Postal Service as we know it.”

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