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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee meeting on Capitol Hill, Sept. 19.“I’ll be 89 when I get out of here. You can do the figuring. I don’t know, but I would assume, probably, yes,”Sanders, a popular contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, was easily reelected to a fourth six-year term last month. He was first elected to the Senate in 2006 after spending 16 years in the House.
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