NEWS: Sanders, Omar, Gillibrand, Heinrich, McGovern, Moore and Colleagues in House and Senate Seek to Permanently End Child Hunger in Schools
WASHINGTON, May 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), along with 15 colleagues in the Senate and 68 in the House of Representatives, today introduced legislation that provides a permanent solution to end child hunger in schools by offering free
PREPARED REMARKS: HELP Committee Brings CEOs of Major Insulin Manufacturers and PBMs Together for Historic Hearing to Discuss the Need to Lower Insulin Prices and the Cost of Other Prescription Drugs
WASHINGTON, May 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled “The Need to Make Insulin Affordable for All Americans,” which heard testimony from the CEOs of major insulin manufacturers Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi, and top executives from the major pharmacy
NEWS: Sanders Announces More Than $3 Million in Federal Funds for Affordable Housing in Vermont
WASHINGTON, May 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that Vermont will receive more than $3 million from the National Housing Trust Fund. Sanders first introduced legislation to create the National Housing Trust Fund in 2001, based on the success of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund. Sanders succeeded in establishing the program nationwide in 2008. This year’s
NEWS: Chairman Sanders Releases Digital Short Featuring Insulin Patients
Video Comes the Day Before Senate HELP Committee Hearing with CEOs of Insulin Makers and Leaders of PBMs WASHINGTON, May 9 – Ahead of a major Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing that will bring together CEOs of major insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the committee, today released a digital short
MEDIA ADVISORY: Chairman Bernie Sanders Announces Senate HELP Committee Field Roundtable at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta to Discuss Health Care Workforce Shortage
Sanders Takes Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on the Road with First Field Roundtable as Chairman WASHINGTON, May 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced today that the committee on Friday, May 12 will hold a field roundtable at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta with leaders
