Road to Recovery
As Vermont unemployment shot up to 6.8 percent, the highest level in 17 years, state and local officials around the country began turning the $787 billion economic stimulus bill Bernie strongly supported into bricks-and-mortar projects. To learn more about the recovery package, click here.
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Health Centers
Sanders introduced legislation to quadruple funding for community health centers like the eight he has helped establish in Vermont. The centers provide primary health care, dental care, mental health services and low-cost prescription drugs. To watch the press conference, click here.
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Chairman Sanders
Sanders is the chairman of the Senate's new Green Jobs Subcommittee. "There is no better moment to move forward aggressively on energy efficiency, sustainable energy and creating good paying jobs in the process," he said recently. To read more, click here.
Issue March 13, 2009 - 
Sanders proposed legislation to cap interest rates on credit cards. Banks that have taken the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history, the senator said, should not be allowed to slap consumers with rates up to 30 percent. To watch him talk about loan sharks in three-piece suits, click 
At least $2.2 trillion in taxpayer-backed loans have secretly been doled out by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chief Bernanke refused to tell Bernie who got the money, so Bernie introduced legislation to demand disclosure. To watch the exchange, click 
Sanders secured $5 million the Vermont National Guard could use for one of New England's largest solar energy projects. Sanders thanked the guard for its support of the project and for its "willingness to help make the Vermont National Guard a leader in this state in sustainable energy." To read more, click 
