Honorable Bernie Sanders
United States Senator, Vermont, Independent
Senator Sanders was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. He served as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, from 1981 to 1989, and as Representative-At-Large from Vermont’s congressional district from 1991 to 2006. He chairs the Veterans Affairs Committee and is also a member of the following committees: Budget; Environment and Public Works, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy; Energy and Natural Resources; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging. The following is from the November 18, 2014, Senate floor debate on S. 2280, to…
