Honorable Bernie Sanders
United States Representative, Vermont, Independent
Representative Sanders, the Representative-At-Large from Vermont, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. He served as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, from 1981 to 1989. He sits on the Financial Services Committee and the Government Reform Committee. The following is from the July 13, 2005, House floor debate on H.R. 8, the Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005.This is actually one of the more absurd debates that I have ever heard in my life, and I think anybody who turns on the television and wonders what is going on here in Congress will then conclude that…
