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"The American people are beginning to catch on that there`s something fundamentally wrong in our society when so few have so much and so many have so little," Bernie said after President Obama made economic fairness a key theme in his State of the Union address. The senator also praised the president for stressing the need to create millions of good-paying jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and transforming our energy systems away from fossil fuels.
Watch Bernie on MSNBC after the State of the Union with Ed Schultz



Defend Social Security
The senator expressed concern, however, about President Obama's statement in the speech that he was prepared to work with Republicans to "reform" Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "If 'reform' means he is prepared to cut these vitally important programs for tens of millions of vulnerable Americans. I will very strongly oppose that effort."
Watch Bernie on Current TV after the State of the Union with Keith Olbermann

Stop Oil Subsidies
The president declared that "we've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough." Bernie addressed a Capitol Hill rally before Obama's speech and called for an end to tax breaks and other subsidies for the oil and coal industries. "We've got to end all of the tax breaks for the oil companies and coal companies and I'm going to introduce legislation to do just that," he told demonstrators.
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UNDO CITIZENS UNITED
Two years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that corporations have the same First Amendment rights as people. Bernie thinks the ruling was absurd and proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United

SAVING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
If you are concerned about the collapse of the middle class, you should be concerned about how American campaigns are financed. Bernie and Public Citizen's Robert Weissman wrote for The Huffington Post

NO KEYSTONE PIPELINE
The president's decision to stop the 1,700-mile oil pipeline was praised by Bernie. "In my view, this tar sands pipeline is a bad deal for the country and for our planet."

THE BILL MCKIBBEN INTERVIEW
"Sanders has been all over this," Bill McKibben, the Vermont environmentalist who led mass protests against the pipeline, told The Washington Post

VERMONT YANKEE
In a case with national implications, a federal judge blocked Vermont from closing a 40-year-old nuclear power plant. Bernie called the ruling wrong and ripe for appeal

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