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During Bernie Sanders 2006 Senatorial campaign, [[Republican]] opponent Rich Tarrant made an issues over Sanders 2003 vote against the [[Amber Alert]]. Which is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets in [[Canada]] and in the [[United States]], when police confirmed that a child has been abducted. The bill passed in the House of Representatives 410-14. Every United States Senator voted for it, including Vermont Senator's [[Patrick Leahy]] and [[Jim Jefferds]]. He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Women's Rights HIV Testing –Passage. Which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant. | During Bernie Sanders 2006 Senatorial campaign, [[Republican]] opponent Rich Tarrant made an issues over Sanders 2003 vote against the [[Amber Alert]]. Which is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets in [[Canada]] and in the [[United States]], when police confirmed that a child has been abducted. The bill passed in the House of Representatives 410-14. Every United States Senator voted for it, including Vermont Senator's [[Patrick Leahy]] and [[Jim Jefferds]]. He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Women's Rights HIV Testing –Passage. Which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant. | ||
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| + | *[http://www.sanders.senate.gov/ Senate site] | ||
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Revision as of 11:41, July 17, 2009
| Bernie Sanders | |||
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| U.S. Senator from Vermont From: January 3, 2007 – Present | |||
| Predecessor | Jim Jeffords | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| U.S. Representative from Vermont's at-large Congressional District From: January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007 | |||
| Predecessor | Peter Smith | ||
| Successor | Peter Welch | ||
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| Party | Independent (Caucuses with Democrats) | ||
| Spouse(s) | Jane O'Meara | ||
| Religion | Judaism | ||
Bernie Sanders, born September 8, 1941 (age 84), is the only self-identified democratic socialist in the United States Congress, and in 2006 became the first admitted socialist elected to the U.S. Senate to represent Vermont. Previously, he served in the House of Representatives for eight terms. He usually caucuses with Democrats.
He said this to Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, during a Financial Services Committee hearing in 2003: "The country club and the cocktail parties are not real America. You have defended over the years the abolition of the minimum wage and giving huge tax breaks to billionaires. But today you reached a new low, I think, by suggesting that manufacturing in America doesn't matter."
Sanders has claimed that the Fox News Channel led America into the war in Iraq, and called on other news organization to "not to follow Fox down the road to war again."[1]
Controversial votes
During Bernie Sanders 2006 Senatorial campaign, Republican opponent Rich Tarrant made an issues over Sanders 2003 vote against the Amber Alert. Which is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets in Canada and in the United States, when police confirmed that a child has been abducted. The bill passed in the House of Representatives 410-14. Every United States Senator voted for it, including Vermont Senator's Patrick Leahy and Jim Jefferds. He was also one of only nineteen Congressman to vote against the Women's Rights HIV Testing –Passage. Which would allow sexual assault victims to find out the HIV status of their suspected assailant.
