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By WCAX News Team; WCAX Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is eyeing new federal funding for rural health care. Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions, says he wants to pass legislation lowering the cost of prescription drugs and raising the minimum wage. Despite the slim Democratic majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in

By: WCAX News Team; WCAX A group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill said student debt relief is the key to the American Dream. Senators including Vermont independent Bernie Sanders and New York Democrat Chuck Schumer, along with a handful of representatives, wrote to the Biden administration affirming continued support for the president’s plan. It comes as the Supreme Court seems likely to

By: Stephanie Lai; New York Times  The Senator has set a Wednesday vote to compel Howard Schultz, the billionaire Starbucks chief executive, to testify in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.  Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday confirmed that his committee will hold a vote this week to open an investigation into federal labor law violations by

By: Sahil Kapur; NBC News The company says Schultz is “not the right witness” for a hearing and offered others in the organization to testify about labor practices. Sanders plans to hold a vote next week. Starbucks is pushing back against Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee he chairs ahead of a vote

Analysis by Rachel Roubein with research by McKenzie Beard; Washington Post Moderna’s CEO will testify before the Senate as the company faces backlash over a looming vaccine price hike Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is hauling his first pharma CEO to Capitol Hill. In a hearing next month, the new chair of the Senate’s sweeping health panel is planning to publicly grill Stéphane Bancel, the top executive

By: Alia Wong; USA Today Having met and fallen in love through their careers as special education teachers, Natalia Sandoval and her husband tried to make it work as long as they could. But after a while, they could no longer get by on two teacher salaries while raising two sons in Hawaii, not to mention paying back the student loan