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Senator Bernie Sanders Backs 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 17, 2015 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that he is co-sponsoring a bill by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. This important piece of legislation would prevent commercial banks from engaging in risky investment schemes that nearly destroyed the economy in 2008.

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“I strongly support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bill to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act,” Sanders said.

On July 1, 1999, while Congress was voting on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to…

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