Here's Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), making sense, as usual:
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“We have made progress but we still have a long way to go if we are to keep faith with those who have put their lives on the line to defend us,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech before the vote [on legislation expanding health care, education, employment and other benefits for veterans]. “I hope very much that we will go down that road together, that we will tell the American people that at least on this one issue we can stand together and protect the interests of those people who have sacrificed so much for our country.”
After the vote, Sanders reacted to Republican senators who want to inject a debate over Iran sanctions into the measure on veterans programs. “We can have honest differences on how to address veterans issues, but it is disrespectful to the millions of veterans in this country to introduce an extraneous provision on Iran sanctions,” Sanders said. “The American people have had enough of silly partisan politics. Let’s focus on veterans issues.”
Veterans Bill Clears Senate Hurdle - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
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Sanders is a freaking socialist and yet he is one of the few in Congress who actually makes sense when he speaks.