Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Lead Push for Oversight Against Wall Street Corruption in Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON, September 24 — Following the two-year anniversary of Hurricane María’s devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) led more than a dozen lawmakers in a call to reverse the crippling austerity imposed on Puerto Rico; end the priority given to the demands of Wall Street vulture funds over of the needs of the Puerto Rican people; and put a
Poverty a Death Sentence, Sanders Declares, as GAO Links Inequality to Mortality
WASHINGTON, September 8 – A groundbreaking Government Accountability Office (GAO) study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), released today, provides a comprehensive picture of income, wealth, life expectancy, and retirement security among older Americans. GAO found not only that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer, but provided evidence that led Sanders to conclude that poverty is, in
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Hold Public Meeting in Vermont
WASHINGTON, September 4 – Next week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold a public meeting in Brattleboro to discuss best practices for community and citizen advisory boards, like Vermont’s Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens’ Advisory Panel, associated with nuclear plant decommissioning activities. The meeting, one of ten planned around the country in communities affected by nuclear decommissioning, will also serve as
Sanders, Lee, Khanna, Gaetz Lead Bipartisan Effort to Defund U.S. Role in Saudi War in Yemen
Washington, September 3 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) led a bipartisan group of 44 lawmakers urging Congress to defund unauthorized U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen in the upcoming bill to authorize Pentagon spending. The U.S.-Saudi military campaign in Yemen has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, leaving 24 million Yemenis—80
Sanders and Cummings Seek Answers on Drug Companies’ Apparent Obstruction of Congressional Investigation into Generic Drug Price Increases
WASHINGTON, August 14 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent letters to Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Mylan N.V., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., opening an investigation into the companies’ apparent coordinated obstruction of a 2014 inquiry into the way their companies raised prices on lifesaving generic drugs. “Not only did
