mr. sanders: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: i ask that the previous order with respect to the motion to discharge be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: i further ask that i be allowed to speak for up to 30 minutes, senator risch for up to five minutes and senator menendez for up on it ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president, this is an issue that i and a number of us, democrats and republicans, progressives, conservatives, have been working on for a number of years. i was disappointed that the biden administration has announced its opposition to the resolution that i am bringing forth, but we have been in communication with the administration all day and just a few minutes ago, we have received a commitment from them that they will work with us to end the war

mr. sander was able to reverse hi financial fortunes in a way. mid twenties - >> that seems like a core part of all this. yeah, just to walk you through this and in the mid 20 tans, he was facing a string of evictio related cases. he had some credit card debt thousands of dollars which added up over time, whic admitted to and acknowledge. these court filings he has acknowledges it. in 2020, when he is running hi first campaign, he filed a federal disclosure saying hi salary at the time is $55,000 year that was a considerably more modest race than he ran this year, when he filed out of disclosure, he said he was making $7,000 from the - organization, which is his own personal business. and the company was also payin dividends of one to $5 million that's a significant change. and he has not fully explained how his business works he described it to city an state, a local l.a. here in ne york, as a consulting firm but we're not entirely clear who his clients are. which is a member of congres revenue, on a weather business interests are and how it aff

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mr. sanders: as the other senator from our small state of 630,000 people, i want to thank senator leahy on behalf of all vermonters and people throughout this country for his 48 years of service here in the united states senate. and on a personal note, obviously senator leahy and i have worked together for many, many decades. he was very helpful to me when i was mayor of the city of burlington. we worked together when i was a member of the house. and obviously we have worked together for vermont since i've been in the senate. and i think if you drive around our beautiful state -- and we want you all to visit us maybe not this weekend where there's a snowstorm, but come in the spring -- you will see many of the impacts that senator leahy has had on our state, from literally one end of the state to the other. but it's not only the impacts he's had on vermont, it's the impacts he's had on the nation and in fact, as senator schumer said, on the entire world. as a united states senator, senator leahy has been a great chairman of the judiciary committee, dealing with some of the major issues tha

mr. president, let's be clear it's not just the unions and bernie sanders who believe the working conditions on the railroads with no guaranteed sick leave is wrong and inhumane. it turns out it is shared by some of the major business customers who are seeing a decline in the service thathe ty are receiving and that they need. let me quote from a recent op-ed the president and ceo of the national association of chemical distributors who wrote an update entitled railroads should give workers the benefits they seek. the product is in a reasonable period of time and on schedule. to say it is woefully inadequate would be an understatement. it doesn't include any significant measures to improve quality of life issues. the workers today have zero time allotted to them by the freight rail and employers according to the bureau of labor statistics the private sector workers receive seven to eight days of sick leave per year, a fragile and volatile supply chain requires a strong network now is not the time to deny the reasonable benefits fory the community that has been decimated by losses in recent y

mr. bernie sanders cringe. bankman-fried is where he belongs. -- the bankruptcy filing denotes several an acceptable practices, such as the use of software to -- two alameda's certain exemption -- can you expand on these practices and what you've learned since the bankruptcy filing? >> the basic concept is that alameda was able to borrow on an unlimited basis, or transfer. i'm not sure borrowing is almost a technical term. transferring of assets, boring of assets, on an unlimited basis. then it was allowed to take massive positions with other people's money. because they had no auto liquidation feature, ultimately those losses could exceed the value of that account. that's essentially what happened in a nutshell. >> thank you. another question. if ftx stockham was domiciled here in the u.s., do you think the outcome would've been the same? >> the extent of the lack of controls in the way this business was operated, i don't think it would matter where this company was located. >> here is what i'm getting a. i've

mr. president, let's be clear. it's not just the rail unions and bernie sanders who believes that working conditions on the railroads with no guaranteed sick leave is wrong and inhumane. it turns out that view is shared by some of the railroad's major business customers who are seeing a decline in the service that they are receiving and that they need. let me quote from a recent op-ed, the president and ceo of the national association of chemical distributors who wrote an op-ed entitled railroads should give railroad workers the benefits they seek. and here is what mr. bier wrote. again, this is a business organization that wants to make sure that their product is delivered on the railroads in a reasonable period of time and on schedule. and mr. byer quote, to say that the sick leave policy for railroad workers inadequate would be an understatement. the negotiated agreement does not include any significant measures to improve quality of life issues. rail workers today have zero time allotted to them by their freight rail employers for sick leave. according to the bureau of labor statistics, private sector workers re

opposed senator sanders resolution center has enough crucial - javelins week without quoting out of her way to make life better for enemies and harder for our partners. quorum call: mr. carper: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. carper: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you, mr. president. today it is my honor -- the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: thank you, sir. it's my honor to rise in honor of tamika r. montgomery-reeves to be confirmed to the united states circuit court of appeals for the third circuit. in september of this year, i had the privilege to introduce justice montgomery-reeves at her senate judiciary committee confirmation hearing where she was joined in the audience by her large family and i think most of the state of delaware. as my colleagues from illinois, the chairman of the judiciary committee will attest, we needed a few extra chairs at that hearing in order to accommodate tamika's family and her friends. many delawareans including the entire delaware court of chancery and the current chief justice of the delaw

who ran bernie sanders 2020 -- he wrote a new york times essay on monday, denouncing the choice for multiplicity of reasons. he writes, quote, south carolina is not a battleground state, mrrried it by double digits in 2020. let's not compel all other democratic campaigns to raise more money that could be better spent elsewhere. he notes that south carolina has the lowest per capita union membership of anywhere in the country. he also points out that georgia, nevada, north carolina are better candidates. of course, their battleground states in the general election. unlike south carolina, which went for trump by almost 12 percentage points. in 2020. and just look at the demographics. if democrats -- want to stay that reflects their strong base of black voters, and they should, georgia's 19 percentage points ahead of the u.s. average when it comes to a black population, south carolina is just 13 points ahead. or if democrats before a state that closely matches the u.s. population in the general election, north carolina and nevada resemble the u.s. as a whole much more than south carolina does. so, when it comes the idea of replacing iowa with south carolina, he says the who

mr. president, let's be clear. those who believe that working conditions on the railroads with no guaranteed sick leave is wrong and inhumane. host: senator benny -- bernie sanders talking about the rail deal that passed the house and heads to the u.s. senate. (202) 748-8001 or republicans. (202) 748-8000 four democrats. for independents, (202) 748-8002. we also welcome calls from union workers. (202) 748-8003. in this bill, they say that multiple units have balked at this agreement because of the possibility of paid family or medical leave and it it includes one additional compensating day of personal leave with passage of the bill. the house took the first step to compel all 12 unions to accept the deal. this was the first time since the 1990's since the congress use their past -- powers which allows it to regulate -- let's go to our independent line. good morning. caller: good morning to you. let me tell you about myself. i came to the united states in 1987. the first thing i watched in my you -- news our headlines and when i hear the headlines, i would say that what happened? this is america where individuals have to fight for the rights. we feel sad for our

sanders are independents they caucus with the democrats. >>> a new op-ed praising elon musk's leadership style with the takeover the twitter rob weisenthal says mrs trying to deter systemic disease. joining us is author rob weisenthal slashing bureaucracy giving tiger woo twitter a chance to soar you are staking out a position he is in the right >> correct look, elon has a difficult task ahead of him i think the core of what i saw was the at tremendous buts to be successful he is an operator. he is an engineer. he accepted for applied physics ph.d.. he is more a ceo he can code. he also is a sole owner, or sole investor he is doing this in a private context. he came to the determination it doesn't take 7,500 people to run twitter. he went in and he is a power user he knows the people using the product the best >> you think this is all by design >> i think -- how does it normally work? a new ceo comes in and does a town hall all over the country they try to get buy-in it is about collaboration. they bring in the 100-day plan product transformation >> this is different >> this is a little different. he went in and realized something had to change

mr. sanders: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: madam president, pursuant to section 904 of the congressional budget act of 1974, i move to waive all applicable sections of that act and any other applicable budget points of order for purposes of the pending message, and i ask for the yeas and nays. before that, madam president, let me be very clear. if we do not waive this budget point of order raised by senator paul, it will kill the entire appropriations bill that we are debating. not just this section dealing with sequestration. in other words, if we do not waive this budget point of order, the government will shut down just before christmas, not a particularly nice christmas gift to give to the american people. madam president, this bill, this omnibus bill is not the bill that i would have written, not the bill that anybody else here would have written, but it includes a 30% increase in the child care development block grant program, nearly $1 billion more for head start, doubles funding for community schools, and does

mr. sanders: mr. president, the american people are increasingly disgusted at the level of corporate greed that we see today. we have more income and wealth ineect in america -- inequality in america that we've had in 100 years, working people getting further and further behind. there is no clearer example of corporate greed than what we see in the rail industry today. in the last year that industry earned $21 billion in profit, record-breaking, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends to their wealthy shareholders. and yet, today workers who do difficult and dangerous work have zero paid sick days. zero. you get sick, you've got a mark against you. a couple of marks, you get fired. this cannot and must not happen in america in 2022. this amendment simply says seven paid sick days for workers in the rail industry. and i hope we can win it. i yield back. i ask for the yeas and nays. i yield back all remaining time on both sides. the presiding officer: without objection, all time is yielded