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 in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 2006. He sits on the following committees: Environment and Public Works; Energy and Natural Resources; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Budget; and Veterans’ Affairs. The following is from the February 13, 2009, Senate floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. My sense of history is a little bit different than my good friend from Utah. I was under…
