LIVE: At a time when half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is to expand Social Security by demanding the wealthy pay their fair share.
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The Budget Committee on Thursday, June 9, at 11am ET will hold a hearing, “Saving Social Security: Expanding Benefits and Demanding the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share or Cutting Benefits and Increasing Retirement Anxiety.”
It will be livestreamed below.
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LIVE: No more insurance premiums. No more deductibles. No more co-payments. Health care is right, not a privilege. It’s time for Medicare for All.
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The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday, May 12, at 11 a.m. ET will hold a hearing titled “Medicare for All: Protecting Health, Saving Lives, Saving Money.”
The hearing will be livestreamed at the link below.
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LIVE: Taxpayer dollars should not go to companies like Amazon and multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos who repeatedly break the law.
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The Senate Budget Committee on Thursday, May 5, at 11 a.m. ET will hold a hearing titled “Should Taxpayer Dollars Go to Companies that Violate Labor Laws?”
The hearing will be livestreamed at the link below.
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LIVE: The Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing titled "Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?" Tune in below:
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The Senate Budget Committee on Tuesday, April 5, at 11 a.m. ET will hold a hearing titled “Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?” The hearing will be livestreamed below.
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LIVE: The Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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Chairman announces Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Biden’s FY 2023 Budget Proposal Wednesday, March 30, at 11:00 a.m. ET. His statement is below.
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The Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on “The President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal” Wednesday, March 30, at 11 a.m. ET. The hearing will be livestreamed below.
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Congratulations to Shalanda Young who was confirmed today by the Senate to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget by a vote of 61 to 36. All of our Committee’s members look forward to continue working with her.
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Are you a current law or grad school student or recent graduate interested in learning about the budget process? The Senate Budget Committee Office of Chairman Sanders is now accepting applications for summer internships! Apply at: sanders.senate.gov/internships/.
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LIVE: Chairman holds a committee hearing on "Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are Doing to Workers and Consumers"
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The Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on "Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are Doing to Workers and Consumers" this Thursday, Feb. 17 at 11 a.m. ET. The hearing will be livestreamed on this account and below.
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NEWS: The Senate Budget Committee today voted 15-6 to advance consideration of the Hon. Shalanda Young for Director and the Hon. Nani Coloretti for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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LIVE: Join Chairman and the Senate Budget Committee for a committee hearing to consider the nomination of the Hon. Shalanda D. Young to be Director, and the Hon. Nani A. Coloretti to be Deputy Director, of the Office of Management and Budget.
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TODAY at 2:30pm ET: Chairman will hold a Senate Budget Committee hearing to consider the nominations of the Hon. Shalanda D. Young and the Hon. Nani A. Coloretti for the Office of Management and Budget.
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Unprecedented times require unprecedented action. I’m LIVE on the Senate floor NOW as we start debate on the most consequential legislation for the working class since the New Deal. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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NEWS: Senate Budget Chairman Sanders and Majority Leader Schumer Introduce Historic Budget Resolution
Read the full legislative text below:
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LIVE: The Budget Committee is holding a hearing on President Biden's budget proposal, which is the most significant agenda for working families in the modern history of our country. Now is the time to think big, not small.
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Chairman announces Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Biden’s Budget Tuesday, June 8 at 11:00 a.m. ET with Acting OMB Director Shalanda Young to testify. This account will live-stream the hearing.
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NEWS: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders Statement on President Biden’s Budget Proposal
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LIVE: The Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing focused on waste, fraud and cost overruns at the Pentagon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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Chairman "says he will use his powerful new position atop the Senate Budget Committee to exercise tougher oversight over America’s vast national security establishment."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, May 12 at 11 a.m., on “Waste, Fraud, Cost Overruns, and Auditing at the Pentagon."
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LIVE: Some very powerful special interests tell us the cost of combatting climate change is just too expensive. Compared to what? We're holding a Budget Committee hearing NOW on the cost of inaction on climate change.
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Chairman “sees the committee's responsibility as fighting the climate crisis by encouraging corporations to take the necessary measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions, saving billions of federal dollars spent in the wake of extreme weather and natural disasters.”
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LIVE: The Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing on why we need to end a rigged and corrupt tax code that gives trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy and huge corporations.
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In anticipation of today’s hearing, Chairman and colleagues introduce critical legislation to unrig the tax code and ensure that the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes:
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Chairman : “What we want to do is use the committee to… look at the major issues facing our country and focus a spotlight on them.” Today, the Committee will hold a hearing on the need to make the wealthiest pay their fair share of taxes.
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LIVE: The Senate Budget Committee is holding a hearing on the income and wealthy inequality crisis. The time is now to build an economy that works for all, not just the wealthy and huge corporations.
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Chairman has announced that on Wednesday, March 17 the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on income and wealth inequality in America at 11:00 AM. Please tune into the live hearing here or on the Senate Budget Committee website.
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There is no doubt that Shalanda Young is highly qualified to be Deputy Director of OMB. Today the Budget Committee advanced her nomination in a 14-8 vote.
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Budget Committee Chairman , Leader Schumer and 11 other committee chairs introduce the Senate's American Rescue Plan Act to crush Covid & provide a bridge for struggling Americans to a fairer post-pandemic economy.
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This morning, the Budget Committee considers the nomination of Shalanda Young – a long-time, highly-respected top aide to the House Appropriations Committee – to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Watch live here.
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The Budget Committee is this morning holding a hearing on a simple question: Why should the taxpayers of this country subsidize starvation wages at some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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Incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman introduces a budget resolution to enable Congress to fast-track President Biden’s $1.9 trillion emergency COVID relief package through budget reconciliation. budget.senate.gov/ranking-member
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Absent further legislation, CBO projects that personal income will be $15.7 trillion lower over the decade. Additional aid to individuals is critical both for economic health and for the well-being of households.
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CBO projects that, absent additional aid, the unemployment rate will still be 7.6 percent by the end of 2021. This underscores the need to give more aid directly to individuals and to extend the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.
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