Bernie Sanders is a United States Senator from Vermont, a former member of the US House of Representatives from Vermont, and former Mayor of Burlington. He focuses on economic issues such as income and wealth inequality,raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare, reducing the burden of student debt, making public colleges and universities tuition-free, and expanding Social Security. "I am prepared to run for President of the United States." –Bernie Sanders Bernie throughout the course of his life has spoken his mind, stuck up for what he believed in no matter what. For example while at the University of Chicago he led a rally protesting university president George Wells Beadle's segregated campus housing policy in which he said "We
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After serving four terms he chose not to seek reelection in 1989 but instead teach political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government that year and at Hamilton College in 1991. Also in 1988 he decided to run for U.S. Senate with 38% of the votes. Two years later ran again for the seat and won. He had now become the first independent to be elected for US house of representatives in 40 years. He did a lot of amazing work in the 14 years of being one of the House of Representatives to then later run for U.S senate. On April 21, 2006 he defeated businessman Rich Tarrant and now had a chair in the U.S senate. As one of the first memorable thing he did was deliver a eight hour long filibuster against the extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy.He also fought for expanding the voting right and went against the Supreme Court to remove the landmark Voting Rights Act. Since Bernie is also a member of the U.S Senate Committee on Environmental & Public Works and the Energy & Natural Resources Committee he is driven by his sense of protecting the environment. He is member of the Committee of Budget, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Therefore with all these titles under his belt it shows that he is very well experience in several parts of our government and its …show more content…
This shows you that Bernie Sanders is a fighting man, a man that will fight for what he believes is right and for what we deserve and that through everything no matter how hard or how the odds are stacked against him, he will always give it his best shot to succeed. Well in the efforts to achieve some of his greatest achievement he demonstrated that he had the courage the intellectual ability and the endurance the passion and the overall mental capacity to provide and care for this
After serving four terms he chose not to seek reelection in 1989 but instead teach political science at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government that year and at Hamilton College in 1991. Also in 1988 he decided to run for U.S. Senate with 38% of the votes. Two years later ran again for the seat and won. He had now become the first independent to be elected for US house of representatives in 40 years. He did a lot of amazing work in the 14 years of being one of the House of Representatives to then later run for U.S senate. On April 21, 2006 he defeated businessman Rich Tarrant and now had a chair in the U.S senate. As one of the first memorable thing he did was deliver a eight hour long filibuster against the extension of Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy.He also fought for expanding the voting right and went against the Supreme Court to remove the landmark Voting Rights Act. Since Bernie is also a member of the U.S Senate Committee on Environmental & Public Works and the Energy & Natural Resources Committee he is driven by his sense of protecting the environment. He is member of the Committee of Budget, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Therefore with all these titles under his belt it shows that he is very well experience in several parts of our government and its …show more content…
This shows you that Bernie Sanders is a fighting man, a man that will fight for what he believes is right and for what we deserve and that through everything no matter how hard or how the odds are stacked against him, he will always give it his best shot to succeed. Well in the efforts to achieve some of his greatest achievement he demonstrated that he had the courage the intellectual ability and the endurance the passion and the overall mental capacity to provide and care for this