Bernie Sanders tore into Congress last week during debate about the Keystone Pipeline, telling Senators “when we reject science, we become the laughing stocks of the world.” As a Senate panel took up a proposal last week to build a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that […]
When Liberals Vote, Liberals Win. It really is that simple and that is why these 5 senators put the smackdown on Republican voter suppression efforts. Concerned about Republican led efforts to suppress the vote, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) tasked the non-partisan […]
State laws that make voters show IDs at polling places have put a price on ballot access and eroded turnout – especially among African Americans, young people and recently-registered voters – a non-partisan congressional watchdog concluded. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office report also found scant evidence of voter fraud that the new […]