This is what’s going thru all the freshmen at my school head’s as they decided to get a mango flavored nicotine addiction

Diego pointing his finger when trying to make a point

Diego @ every crime scene ever

You get in the biggest fights with the people you care about the most because those are the relationships you’re willing to fight for.

What has Bernie Sanders Accomplished?

Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Reps

The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history

He was dubbed the “amendment king in the House for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress

Ranking member of Senate Budget Committee

Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) & the Student Nonviolent Committee (SNCC)

Led first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing

1963 - participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting U.S. senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a dream” speech in person

Former professor of political science at Harvard

Former mayor of Burlington, VT. 1981 - upset the 6-term establishment mayor. The city is now reported as among the most livable cities in the country

Co-founded Congressional Progressive Caucus & chaired it for its first 8 yrs

Given a 100% voting score by the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda). Earned a D- rating from the NRA

1984 - Established the Burlington Community Land Trust, the first municipal housing land-trust for affordable housing. This project has now been emulated throughout the world

1991 - One of a handful in Congress to vote against US involvement in Iraq

1992 - Congress passes Sander’ legislation to create National Program of Cancer Registries

1993 - Sanders votes against NAFTA

1996 - Voted against Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); One of the 67 representatives to do so

1999 - Took on the pharmaceutical industry. Becomes the first member of congress to personally take seniors across the border to Canada to buy prescription drugs.

1999 - Protested against IBM’s plan to cut older workers’ pensions then worked to reverse their decision via legislation. Federal District Court rules IBM’s decision violates pension age discrimination laws, thanks Sanders’ efforts

1999 - Sanders votes “no” on bill to undo decades of financial regulation over Wall Street. Bill passes anyway, predicts an economic catastrophe (Great Recession)

2001 - Votes against the Patriot Act and against its reauthorization in 2006. 

2002 - Votes against war in Iraq

2006 - Sanders defeats Vermont’s richest man to be elected to the U.S. Senate as an Independent. Gets endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and is supported by the Dem. Senatorial Campaign Committee

2007 - Sanders’ authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. Later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009

2008 - Thanks to Sen. Sanders, funding for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans

2009 - Works with Chuck Grassley ® to pass amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall St. banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers

2009 - Passes language in the ACA to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems, which allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs

2010 - ACA passes, Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors & nurses working in under-served communities

2010 - Worked with Ron Paul ® in the House to pass a measure as part of Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks/businesses after ‘08 economic collapse.

2013 - Sanders, now chairman of Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, & backed by seniors, women, veterans, unions & disabled Americans, leads a successful effort to stop a “chained-CPI” proposal supported by Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security & disabled veterans’ benefits.

2013 - Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall St. banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.

2014 - A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sen. Sanders, Sen. McCain and Rep. Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama. The measure includes $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and health professionals to meet growing demand for care.

2015 - Sanders takes over as ranking member of Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the middle class.

2015 - Sanders votes against Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

2015 - Sanders introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions signed by 2 million Americans, gathered by National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

2015 - Sanders, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D), Rep. Keith Ellison (D) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D) introduced bills to ban private prisons [which have been 3 to 4 times as expensive with much higher rates of prisoner abuse, guard injury than government run prisons], reinstate the federal parole system and eliminate quotas for the number of immigrants held in detention.

2016 - Sanders places hold on FDA nominee Dr. Robert Califf because of his close ties to pharmaceutical industry and lack of commitment to lowering drug prices. There is no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies.

2018/19 - Sanders’ Yemen War Resolution passes in the Senate and House

2018 - Sanders pressures Disney and Amazon to raise their minimum wage to $15/hr

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