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      <excerpt>...banks should be required to break up into smaller banks within a year, according to  legislation introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. &quot;If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,&quot; Sanders  said in a statement. The Vermont indep</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...an additional 14 weeks. In Vermont, the extension would help about 1,800 Vermonters&#160;whose benefits are about to run out.&#160; Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont,&#160;says people are staying jobless longer than they have since World War II. &quot;Longterm unemploym</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the medals because of an American-led boycott. &quot;The Republican Party has increasingly become the party of 'no,' &quot; announced Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who sits on the Democratic side. &quot;President Obama ran on the campaign model of 'Yes, we can,' and ou</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the medals because of an American-led boycott. &quot;The Republican Party has increasingly become the party of 'no,' &quot; announced Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who sits on the Democratic side. &quot;President Obama ran on the campaign model of 'Yes, we can,' and ou</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...lead to big increases in energy costs, Whitehouse said. &#8220;The Republican Party has increasingly become the party of no,&#8221; said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Boxer, who repeatedly encouraged Republicans to join the markup, said Senate Majority Leader Ha</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Senator who appeared with the committee was Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio). The Senator spoke as a &#8220;mock spokesman,&#8221; as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) put it, explaining that he, along with his Republican colleagues, are ready to work with the committee</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...odd-bedfellow assortment of liberal and conservative Democrats. Joining Boxer are Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, who opposes a public option but wants small businesses to have more choices, and Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, a self-described Socialist.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Vermont's congressional delegation will push for the strongest possible public option when Congress resumes the battle over health care next week. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)&#160;says it's one part of his own agenda for a Progressive agenda.
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      <excerpt>...by Dwyer. The other was Richard Tarrant, who spent $6.9 million of his own money in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in what was an open-seat Senate race in 2006. Sanders raised $6.1 million in that race and spent $5.6 millio</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...this coming season to pass along to harvesters an extra penny-per-pound pledged by these companies. But while U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has fittingly described the commitment of these growers as &#8220;the beginning of the end of the &#8216;Harvest of</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...battle is not yet over . Our focus can now turn to two remaining efforts for single-payer healthcare in this Congress. Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce S 703 in coming weeks, and we understand that he is considering editing it to be more like HR 676. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The bill is a big give away to the insurance industry. Why can&amp;#39;t we have a single-payer system? It makes the most sense, is the most efficient, and pays for itself. People should be supporting HR 676 (and Bernie Sanders&amp;#39;s Senate ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), We need to do exactly what Teddy Roosevelt did back in the trust-busting days and break up these big banks.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Don&amp;#39;t Miss HuffPost Bloggers. 1 of 4. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Too Big To Fail - Too Big To Exist. Robert Reich. Why We Need Even More Stimulus. Rep. Alan Grayson. How the Republicans Failed to Cut Off My Health Care Speech. Mayhill Fowler ...</excerpt>
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