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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Bernie Sanders</title>
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		<title>The Saving American Democracy Amendment</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/20/the-saving-american-democracy-amendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A corporation is not a person. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, seeks a constitutional amendment to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case asserting that corporations have the rights of humans.]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Our Democracy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/11/saving-our-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Constitution of this country has served us well, but when the Supreme Court says that attempts by the federal government and states to impose reasonable restrictions on campaign ads are unconstitutional, our democracy is in grave danger. That is why I have introduced a resolution in the Senate calling for an amendment to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Super Committee</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/after-the-super-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/11/26/after-the-super-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senator Bernie Sanders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to the failure of the Senate Super Committee to reach a compromise on the federal budget.]]></description>
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		<title>Legislation Needed to Strengthen Social Security</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/27/legislation-needed-to-strengthen-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/27/legislation-needed-to-strengthen-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we all tend to take things for granted and we forget that Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation&#8217;s history. Let&#8217;s be clear. For more than 75 years, Social Security has, in good times and bad, paid out every nickel owed to every eligible American. Social Security has succeeded in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immoral, Grotesque, Unfair</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/04/immoral-grotesque-unfair/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/04/immoral-grotesque-unfair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks about cuts to government programs that work and help our friends and neighbors.]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Bernie Sanders: We Will Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of Working Families</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/29/sen-bernie-sanders-we-will-not-balance-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-working-families/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/29/sen-bernie-sanders-we-will-not-balance-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-working-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from Vermont Statement Delivered on the Floor of the United States Senate &#8212; June 27, 2011: Mr. President, this is a pivotal moment in the history of our country. In the coming days and weeks, decisions will be made about our national budget that will impact the lives of virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy American Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/16/buy-american-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/16/buy-american-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for American Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American-made]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy-efficient light bulbs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lead poisoning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Rahall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[off-shored]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first few weeks of June, the Smithsonian opened an all-American made gift shop. A U.S. Senator introduced legislation mandating federal agencies buy all American-made flags. And at the Netroots Nation 2011 conference, the AFL-CIO will serve American union-made beer. The Alliance for American Manufacturing will host an American-made fashion show. And the BlueGreen Alliance will give Netroots attendees mercury-free, USW-made,  non-curly cue Oshram Sylvania halogen light bulbs. With 9.1 percent unemployment, this convergence of American-made events is significant because buying American-made products is buying American jobs. And buying American union-made products is buying good, middle class American jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO, NNU Back New Universal Health Care Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/afl-cio-nnu-back-new-universal-health-care-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/13/afl-cio-nnu-back-new-universal-health-care-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim McDermott]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Hall AFL-CIO Senior Writer Last year, when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it was a “historic milestone on our path toward a more just society,” says AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, “But we also know that much work is left to be done.” That work includes moving to a single-payer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Right Thing: Create Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/06/do-the-right-thing-create-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/06/do-the-right-thing-create-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder when our elected officials will get it.  Get what, you may ask.   Get the idea that our trade policies are killing us and have for many years.  Get the idea that American corporations are NOT going to create jobs here in the United States when they get huge tax breaks for giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Chronic Cronyism – and Corruption</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/04/our-chronic-cronyism-%e2%80%93-and-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/04/our-chronic-cronyism-%e2%80%93-and-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Foley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crony capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fed loans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Starbucks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Pizzigati Editor, on line weekly Too Much America&#8216;s top bankers and CEOs don&#8217;t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a reporter last [...]]]></description>
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