It's time for the Senate to vote: Americans have a right to know where their senators stand

[Uncle Joe]

By Bernie Sanders

During the last year there have been endless back-room negotiations within the Senate Democratic Caucus on Build Back Better, President Biden’s enormously popular legislation which addresses the long-neglected needs of America’s working families. But, amazingly, there have been no votes. 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.

Here’s a radical idea for the Senate, “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” Let’s vote. Let’s have every Republican and Democrat take a position on some of the most important issues facing the working families of this country. Let’s vote on whether, at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the wealthiest people in our society should start paying their fair share of taxes so that we can improve life for the average American.

Eighty-three percent of the American people support empowering the federal government to negotiate with the pharmaceutical industry to lower prescription drug prices.

What do the Republicans think? Are they prepared to stand up to the greed of the pharmaceutical industry which charges us the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs? Will Republicans vote to have Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices in the same way that the VA does, which would lower the cost of prescription drugs by 50 percent.

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https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/591544-its-time-for-the-senate-to-vote-americans-have-a-right-to-know

[PortTack]

1. Agree! No more coddling manchin! He can vote ya or nay, but no more letting him hold the

Whole process captive to his every whim!

[mitch96]

2. I like the NASCAR model.. Where overalls with your sponsors names all over them..

Then we will know who owns whom... In a perfect world that I know will never happen..
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[BeckyDem]

3. Yep.