Bernie Sanders | |
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Official Senate portrait of Sanders, 2007 | |
Unitit States Senator frae Vermont | |
Assumed office 3 Januar 2007 Servin with Patrick Leahy | |
Precedit bi | Jim Jeffords |
Chairman o the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs | |
In office 3 Januar 2013 – 3 Januar 2015 | |
Precedit bi | Patty Murray |
Succeedit bi | Johnny Isakson |
Member o the U.S. Hoose o Representatives frae Vermont's at-lairge destrict | |
In office 3 Januar 1991 – 3 Januar 2007 | |
Precedit bi | Peter Plympton Smith |
Succeedit bi | Peter Welch |
37t Mayor o Burlington | |
In office 6 Apryle 1981 – 4 Apryle 1989 | |
Precedit bi | Gordon Paquette |
Succeedit bi | Peter Clavelle |
Personal details | |
Born | Bernard Sanders 8 September 1941 Brooklyn, New York Ceety, U.S. |
Poleetical pairty | Liberty Union (Afore 1979) Independent (1979–2015) Democratic (2015–present)† |
Spoose(s) | Deborah Shiling (1964–1966) Jane O’Meara (1988–present) |
Domestic partner | Susan Mott (1969)[1] |
Bairns | 1; 3 step-bairns |
Residence | Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
Alma mater | Brooklyn College (1959–60) Varsity o Chicago (1960–64) |
Signatur | |
Wabsteid | Senate wabsteid Campaign wabsteid |
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born 8 September 1941) is an American politeecian. He is a United States Senator frae Vermont. Afore servin in the Senate, he representit Vermont's at-lairge congressional destrict in the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives an servit as mayor o Burlington, Vermont.
Syne his election tae the Senate, Sanders haes emergit as a leadin progressive vyce on issues lik income inequality,[2] climate chynge,[3] an campaign finance reform.[4] He rose tae naitional prominence on the heels o his 2010 filibuster[5][6] o the proposit extension o the Bush-era tax rates for the walthie. Sanders is an aa ootspoken on ceevil liberties issues, an haes been parteecularly creetical o mass surveillance policies syne the Patriot Act.[7][8]
On Apryle 30, 2015, Sanders annooncit his candidacy in the 2016 Unitit States presidential election in an address on the Capitol lawn.[9][10][11]
Sanders wis born in Brooklyn, New York tae Eli Sanders an Dorothy Glassberg.[12][13] His parents war Polish-Jewish immigrants wha moweit tae New York durin the early years o Warld War II.[14]
Sanders studit at Brooklyn College an at the Varsity o Chicago. He wis ane o thowsands o students wha travelit bi bus tae Washington, D.C., tae tak pairt in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.[15]
Efter severel unsuccessfil runs for office, Sanders wis electit mayor o Burlington, Vermont's lairgest ceety, in 1981. He wis reelectit tae three mair twa-year mayoral terms afore bein elected tae represent Vermont's at-lairge congressional destrict in the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives in 1990. He servit as a congressman for 16 years.
Sanders wis elected tae succeid the retirin Republican-turnit-independent Jim Jeffords in the U.S. Senate in 2006. In 2012 he wis reelectit bi a landslide. Sanders wis the anly independent member o the Hoose durin maist o his service an is the langest-servin independent in U.S. congressional history.[16]
Syne his election tae the Senate, Sanders haes emergit as a leadin progressive vyce on issues lik income inequality,[2] climate chynge,[3] an campaign finance reform.[17] He rose tae naitional prominence on the heels o his 2010 filibuster[6][18] o the proposit extension o the Bush-era tax rates for the walthie.
Sanders is an aa ootspoken on ceevil liberties issues, an haes been parteecularly creetical o mass surveillance policies syne the Patriot Act.[7][8]
Sanders is the langest servin independent member o Congress in American history.[19]
In an interview wi The Nation on Mairch 6, 2014, Sanders statit that he wis "preparit to run for Preses o the Unitit States" in 2016[20] but did nae offeecially annoonce a campaign.
On Apryle 28, 2015, Vermont Public Radio reportit that Sanders wad annoonce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Apryle 30.[21][22] The offeecial annooncement came on Mey 26 in Burlington, Vermont.
Sanders haes been mairit tae Jane O'Meara Driscoll. Thay hae fower childer.
Sanders self-identifies as Jewish culturally but states that he is nae religious. He admires Pape Francis an says he feels “very close tae the teachins o Pope Francis,” wha he descryves as “incredibly smart an brave."[23]
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, said Monday he was making good on at least one of a handful of campaign promises — introducing a bill designed to cut U.S. contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade. ... Sanders added that construction of new power plants is "extraordinarily expensive" and he would prefer to see federal funding support used to expand the development of sustainable energy, as well as biofuels.
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