Social Security Retirees would get a $250 one-time payment next year under a Sanders bill to make up for the lack of a cost-of-living adjustment. "We are in the midst of a major recession and we cannot forget about the serious economic stress that older Americans are living under,” he said. The senator’s solution was outlined in a floor speech. To watch it, click here.
September 15, 2009
Sen. Bernie Sanders talks on the Senate floor in support of his legislation which would add an emergency benefit to senior citizens who will not see a cost-of-living adjustment in their Social Security checks this year for the first time since 1975. Read more about the Sanders-DeFazio bill here.
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Surveillance Bernie cosponsored Russ Feingold’s bill to rescind the immunity given to telecommunications firms that took part in a Bush-era spying program. "We have got to do everything we can to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but we can do that and uphold the rule of law," Bernie said. To read more, click here.
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