MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders and Murray Announce HELP Hearing on Devastation Caused by Republican Abortion Bans Two Years Post-Dobbs

WASHINGTON, May 29 – Today, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), former HELP Committee Chair, announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 4 at 10:00 a.m. ET on the tremendous harm, chaos, and heartbreak that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

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NEWS: Sanders, Omar Introduce Legislation to End Corporate Welfare for the Fossil Fuel Industry and Save American Taxpayers Billions of Dollars

The legislation also guarantees the solvency of the Black Lung Disability Fund, ensuring continued medical care for tens of thousands of working-class Americans who provided energy to the nation for decades. WASHINGTON, May 23 – As American taxpayers foot the $17 billion annual bill in direct federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry – while facing the increasingly frequent, dangerous,

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PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders on ICC Seeking Arrest Warrants for Hamas and Israeli Leaders Amidst the Ongoing Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza

WASHINGTON, May 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday night spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders amidst the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza: Sanders’ remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below and can be watched here: Mr. President, there has been

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NEWS: Sanders on NIH Proposal to Lower Prices for Taxpayer-Funded Drugs

WASHINGTON, May 21 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on Tuesday after the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed a new policy to require companies that make drugs invented by NIH scientists more accessible: Let me thank Dr. Monica Bertagnolli for releasing a plan today

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