Sanders urges DNC to vote on banning super PAC primary spending
By: Stephen Neukam; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sander (I-Vt.) is pushing the Democratic National Committee to vote on a resolution to stop the spending of super PACs in primaries, ahead of the party’s winter meetings this week. “The Democratic Party must not allow Oligarchs and their super PACs, often aligned with Republicans, to buy Democratic Party primaries,” Sanders said in a
Sanders Calls for Minimum Wage to Be Raised to at Least $17 an Hour
By: Sharon Zhang; truthout Because of inflation, fighting for a $15 an hour minimum wage is no longer enough, Sanders said. In his new role as the chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is calling for the minimum wage to be raised for the first time in nearly 14 years, saying
Drug companies brace for chairman Bernie
By: Peter Sullivan; Axios Sen. Bernie Sanders has long made no secret that he thinks drug companies and health insurers are ripping off Americans. But now he’s chairman of the Senate health committee. Why it matters: Sanders has signaled an early focus of the committee’s work will be drug prices, and manufacturers are bracing for some contentious hearings. “I have no
Sanders Backs Renewed Push for Ban on Dark Money in Democratic Primaries
By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “If Democrats really believe in democracy and campaign finance reform, we must ban super PACs in primaries,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday voiced support for a renewed progressive push at the Democratic National Committee to ban dark money donations in the party’s primaries, an effort that comes months after the DNC
Sanders gives speech on state of working middle class
By: WCAX News Team; WCAX Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined the economic disparities between wealthy and working-class Americans in a speech on Tuesday night, warning of the dangers of what he calls an emerging oligarchy. Vermont’s senior senator is the incoming chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. In Tuesday’s speech at the U.S. Capitol, he stressed the importance
Bernie, on his agenda for the Senate health panel
By: Rachel Roubein; The Washington Post Sen. Sanders wants to move “very aggressively” on the high cost of prescription drugs You might not have guessed this: As Sen. Bernie Sanders takes the gavel of the chamber’s prestigious health panel, a hearing on Medicare-for-all isn’t at the top of his list. The independent firebrand has long championed a far-reaching proposal to
