Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders

@SenSanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history. Tweets ending in -B are from Bernie, and all others are from his staff.

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Raising the eligibility age from 65 to 67 would increase costs to states by $700 million.

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20h

Raising the eligibility age from 65 to 67 would increase health care costs for those 65 and 66 by $3.7 billion.

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21h

Raising the eligibility age from 65-67 would leave at least 435,000 seniors uninsured every year.

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13 Dec

Enacting a chained-CPI would make substantial cuts to the VA benefits of more than 3 million veterans.

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12 Dec

Today at 11am Sen. Sanders will hold a press conf. in S-115 at the US Capitol to discuss threats to benefits.

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12 Dec

93% of all new income generated between 2009 and 2010 went to the top 1% while the bottom 99% split the remaining 7%.

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11 Dec

Talking to re fiscal cliff . Also talking to Norman Ornstein about the biggest story of 2012 the media missed.

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