On Saturday, US senators began debating the texts of Joe Biden’s grand plan on climate and health. In the evening, they entered a marathon procedure called “vote-a-rama”, during which they proposed dozens of amendments for fifteen hours in a row and demanded a vote on each. It was therefore during this process that the photographer captured the image of Sanders, washed away by the debates.
The senator presented several amendments supposed to reinforce the social aspect of the text, finally adopted this weekend, but considerably trimmed. Progressives had to abandon their ambitions of free public kindergartens and universities and better care for the elderly in this text. “Millions of retirees will continue to have rotten teeth and not to receive the dentures, hearing aids or glasses they deserve,” Bernie Sanders criticized from the Hemicycle last week.
