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The @nytimes doesn’t want you to know it, but I am damn proud of the accomplishments @SenSanders and our staff have achieved in the Senate and the House - both inside and outside the beltway. Here's just 20 of our achievements in the two decades I’ve worked for him. (Thread)
3 weeks after Bernie introduced the Stop BEZOS Act, Amazon raised its wages to at least $15/hour. While our critics were busy attacking this bill, we kept our eye on the prize: building a grassroots campaign that wouldn't relent until Amazon raised wages. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw4n7j/jeff-bezos-just-caved-to-activists-and-bernie-sanders-and-raised-amazons-minimum-wage-to-dollar15
2 years after Bernie slammed Disney for paying workers starvation wages & less than 3 months after he rallied with 2K workers in Anaheim, over 60,000 Disney workers won a $15/hour minimum wage. Bernie was the only Senator who stood with the Disney workers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/disneyland-workers-living-wage-disney-inequality
In '15, when Bernie 1st introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, the establishment called it a crazy, pie-in-the-sky, radical idea that would never, ever happen. Today, 7 states and over 40 cities have passed $15 an hour minimum wage laws. https://yubanet.com/usa/new-study-low-wage-areas-can-afford-15-hr-minimum-wage/
One week after a Republican-led House approved Bernie’s amendment designed to stop IBM from slashing the pensions of older workers in 2004, 130,000 IBM workers regained over $300 million in pension benefits that had been illegally taken away from them. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109648897792831600
From '95-'07, Bernie passed the most roll call amendments & was the "amendment king." “He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active and on the other by using his status as an independent to form left-right coalitions,” Matt Taibbi. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/24/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-was-roll-call-amendment-king-1995-2/
13 years after Bernie 1st introduced the National Housing Trust Fund, the funds became available to construct new housing. “I'm very grateful to Sen. Bernie Sanders for championing the NHTF since the first days of our campaign in 2001,” Sheila Crowley. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-welcomes-funding-for-affordable-rental-housing
In '14, Bernie passed an amendment preventing cuts to Social Security & disabled vets. “With the adoption of Senator Sanders’ amendment, the Senate makes clear the need to protect retirees, veterans & others from an unwarranted cut to their benefits," AARP https://thehill.com/policy/finance/289981-senate-on-record-opposing-use-of-chained-cpi
In 2012, @SenSanders formed a coalition of 27 Senators to stop the Postal Service from closing up to 15,000 post offices & more than 100 mail processing facilities, ending Saturday mail and eliminating over 100,000 postal service jobs. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/-senate-passes-postal-reform
Less than 5 months after Bernie urged President Obama to sign an executive order raising the pay of federal contract workers to at least $10.10 an hour, President Obama announced he would do just that in his State of the Union address. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/federal-workers-to-get-a-minimum-wage-boost
Six years after Bernie introduced a bill to prevent credit card companies from jacking up interest rates on consumers who always paid their credit card bills on time, President Obama signed that legislation into law as part of the CARD Act. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-long-fight-against-credit-card-abuses
As home heating bills skyrocketed in '08, Bernie led the effort to double funding for the home energy assistance program which makes sure that millions of Americans don’t go cold in the winter by providing them with assistance to pay their heating bills. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/major-victory-on-home-energy-assistance
Less than 5 months after Bernie introduced a bill to establish a Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to reduce prices, Bill Clinton directed the Energy Department to establish a 2 million barrel heating oil reserve in the Northeast https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/3608?s=1&r=3 https://www.energy.gov/fe/northeast-home-heating-oil-reserve-nehhor-history
In 2009, Sanders passed an amendment with Senator Grassley that was signed into law by President Obama as part of the Recovery Act preventing bailed-out banks from replacing U.S. workers with low-paid, temporary guest workers from overseas. https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/release-sanders-grassley-introduce-employ-america-act
In July 2001, the House passed Bernie’s amendment prohibiting the importation of goods made by forced or indentured child labor. The legislation made Customs Service agents detain a product if they believed it was made by children in forced labor. https://observer.com/2016/03/how-bernie-gets-things-done-in-congress-without-being-bought-off/
6 months after Bernie introduced a bill allowing Americans to obtain free credit reports from the 3 major credit bureaus it was signed into law. We also wanted to require free credit scores, but the Republicans refused. https://www.congress.gov/108/bills/hr2546/BILLS-108hr2546ih.pdf https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2622/text
