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U.S. 参议员伯尼·桑德斯

Bernie Sanders is serving his third term in the United States Senate after winning re-election in 2018. 他在美国的前16年.S. House of Representatives make him the longest-serving independent member of Congress in American history. 

1941年出生于布鲁克林, Sanders attended James Madison High School, 布鲁克林学院, 以及芝加哥大学. After graduating in 1964, he moved to Vermont. In 1981, he was elected (by 10 votes) to the first of four terms as mayor of Burlington. 桑德斯在约翰F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, 麻萨诸塞州, and at Hamilton College in upstate New York before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress. 

The Almanac of American Politics calls Sanders a “practical and successful legislator.在他的职业生涯中, he has focused on the shrinking American middle class and the growing income and wealth gaps in the U.S. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Sanders passed legislation reforming the VA health care system in 2014. Congressional Quarterly said he was able “to bridge Washington’s toxic partisan divide and cut one of the most significant deals in years.” 

今天, Sanders remains on the veterans committee and was tapped by Senate leadership to chair the Senate 健康, 教育, 劳动, 及退休金委员会. He also serves on the Environment and Public Works Committee, where he has focused on global warming and rebuilding our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Sanders is a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he has championed efforts to transform our energy system from fossil fuels to renewable power sources like solar and wind. He also sits on the Senate Budget Committee, which he was chairman of last Congress, and led the committee’s fight against corporate greed.