Bernie Sanders (The More Things Changed)

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician, serving as a United States Representative from New York from 1993-2001 and again since 2003. Sanders is cumulatively the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House in 1991, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority.