'The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.' —SenSanders
"The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives."Voicing exasperation with months of fruitless backroom talks over the Build Back Better Act, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday demanded floor votes on individual pieces of the stalled legislation in order to force Republicans—and right-wing Democrats—to go on the record opposing policies with widespread public support.
, a plan to lower sky-high prescription drug prices, and significant investments in renewable energy, child care, housing, and other Democratic priorities."The result: the Republican Party is able to escape responsibility for their reactionary positions and is now laughing all the way to likely political success in the 2022 elections," the Vermont senator warned."Here's a radical idea for the Senate, 'the world's greatest deliberative body.' Let's vote.
Republicans haven't exactly been quiet about their opposition to the Build Back Better package as a whole.
"Eighty-three percent of the American people support empowering the federal government to negotiate with the pharmaceutical industry to lower prescription drug prices," Sanders noted Wednesday.
"This is an enormously difficult moment for the struggling working class of our country, and the Senate needs to act," he wrote."In our democracy, the American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives. No more endless 'negotiations.' No more hiding behind closed doors. Let's vote."