From: THE BERNIE BUZZ

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Watch: Bernie speaks about Lincoln's Gettysburg address Sen. Bernie Sanders visits a Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on February 7.

Speaking Monday at The Brookings Institution, Bernie recounted a weekend trip to the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. “While there, we read Lincoln’s extraordinary Gettysburg Address – where he spoke of his hope that this nation would have a ‘new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’ As we drove home it struck me hard that Lincoln’s beautiful vision – a government of the people, by the people, for the people – was, in fact, perishing, was coming to an end, and that we are moving rapidly away from our democratic heritage into an oligarchic form of society – where we are experiencing a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class and for the billionaire class.” American democracy is in peril, Bernie explained, because the Supreme Court opened the floodgates and let billionaires spend unlimited sums to buy elections. The Koch brothers alone are planning a nearly $1 billion campaign in 2016, a bigger budget than either of the major political parties.

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Bernie at Brookings Bernie laid out his Agenda for America during a speech and question-and-answer session at the preeminent Washington think tank. He spoke about reversing a 40-year decline in wages and increasing wealth and income inequality. He advocated a massive federal jobs program which would create some 13 million jobs, a higher minimum wage and affordable higher education. Watch the speech

A Manufactured Crisis Unless Congress acts, there will be a 19 percent cut next year in a Social Security program that helps disabled people. Instead of allowing a routine bookkeeping transfer that Congress has done 11 times before, Republicans now in control of Congress are targeting this life-and-death program. “Republicans are manufacturing a phony crisis in Social Security in order to cut the earned benefits of millions of the most vulnerable people in this country,” Sanders said. “The American people won’t let them get away with it.” Watch Bernie at a rally Read a Budget Committee report

No to Netanyahu Bernie on Monday became the first senator to say he would not attend a March 3 speech to a joint session of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. House Speaker John Boehner's invitation for Netanyahu to talk about Iran’s nuclear program came without consulting the White House. “What Speaker Boehner has done is politicize the situation in a way that's unprecedented and creates a dangerous situation for American foreign policy,” Bernie said. Watch Bernie on CNN