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WASHINGTON, June 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05), along with 16 of their colleagues in the Senate and House, today urged President Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to support Brazil’s historic G20 initiative to establish a global minimum tax on the world’s ultrawealthy. The letter comes ahead of the G20 meetings this July during

WASHINGTON, June 11 – At a time when the United States pays, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced today that the committee will, on Tuesday, June 18, vote to subpoena the President of Novo Nordisk Inc., Doug Langa,

“The American people are sick and tired of being ripped off by giant pharmaceutical companies,” said Sanders WASHINGTON, June 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today spoke on the floor of the Senate about the outrageous costs major pharmaceutical companies charge for prescription drugs in the United States,

Children in Gaza are starving to death. Sanders said: “As we all know, we’re in campaign season. And I would say to Speaker Johnson that when you attend your fundraising dinners with your billionaire friends, and you eat your fine steaks and your lobsters and your other wonderful food, please remember these pictures from Gaza.” WASHINGTON, June 3 – Sen.

WASHINGTON, June 1 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the decision of Senate and House leaders of both political parties to extend an invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address a joint meeting of Congress: It is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited –