Title: Outsider in the House
First published: 1997
Description: Bernie Sanders was the first Independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in forty years, and the only Independent to serve four consecutive terms. In this autobiography, he discusses his 1996 election campaign in Vermont, his chairmanship of the House Progressive Caucus, and his discussions with President Clinton, Democrats, and Republicans on issues such as minimum wage, the Gulf War, NAFTA, health care, welfare reform, military spending, and the limitations of the two party system.
Subjects: Biography, Legislators, Politics and government, United States, United States. Congress. House, Biographies, United states, congress, house, biography, United states, politics and government, 1989-, Sanders, bernard, 1941-, Legislators, united states
Places: United States
People: Bernard Sanders
Time periods: 1989-
LC classification: E840.8.S26 A3 1997