Bernie Sanders Senate Floor Speech on Minimum Wage March 5

  • Date: March 5, 2021
  • Speaker(s):
Average objectivity: 0.11
Average polarity: 0.49

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Distribution of sentiment scores from sentences
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Sanders

Average polarity: 0.11
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Average subjectivity: 0.49
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Most used part of speech

Nouns
  1. hour - 21
  2. legislation - 20
  3. country - 20
  4. people - 48
  5. wage - 44
Verbs
  1. want - 27
  2. raise - 16
  3. going - 15
  4. working - 13
  5. know - 10
Adjectives
  1. minimum - 24
  2. american - 12
  3. many - 12
  4. last - 9
  5. more - 7
Adverbs
  1. now - 21
  2. very - 15
  3. so - 15
  4. just - 11
  5. not - 42

Sentences sentiment

Most positive
  1. The working families of our country today are hurting in a way that they have not hurt since the Great Depression, and they want their government to hear their pain and come to their aid.0.8
  2. Incredibly, during this pandemic, over 650 billionaires in America have increased their wealth by more than a trillion dollars.0.7
  3. And I see the Senator from California, Mr. Padilla, and we’re delighted that he is joining us.0.7
  4. This is really amazing.0.6
  5. They can’t interact with their grandchildren, with their own kids, with their friends.0.6
Most negative
  1. So this has been just an awful year for people in our country and in fact, throughout the world.-1.0
  2. Unbelievable what we have gone through in terms of this terrible pandemic.-0.62
  3. Because of an unfortunate and, in my view, misguided decision by the parliamentarian, this reconciliation bill does not include an increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.-0.5
  4. That’s wrong.-0.5
  5. And that is that in the richest country in the history of the world, we can no longer tolerate millions of our workers being unable to feed their families because they are working for starvation wages.-0.5
Most objective
  1. And they are asking, 'Does anybody, anybody in Washington care about their lives?” So what today is about in a very profound way is whether or not we stand with the working class of this country.1.0
  2. Unbelievable what we have gone through in terms of this terrible pandemic.1.0
  3. They can’t interact with their grandchildren, with their own kids, with their friends.1.0
  4. So this has been just an awful year for people in our country and in fact, throughout the world.1.0
  5. Just an unbelievable number.1.0
Most subjective
  1. Madam President, I rise today to offer an amendment to increase the federal minimum wage from a starvation wage of $7 and 25 cents an hour to $15 an hour over a five-year period.0.0
  2. As I think you know, the Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 2007.0.0
  3. So to my mind, the American people in poll after poll, in state after state understand that we’ve got to raise that minimum wage to a living wage of 15 bucks an hour.0.0
  4. And I intend to do everything that I can to make that happen.0.0
  5. And I will be offering that amendment this morning.0.0

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