MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders, Gillibrand, DeLauro to Rally with Rail Workers, Mothers, Union Leaders, Advocates, and Colleagues Around Legislation to Finally Guarantee Paid Leave in America
WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) on Wednesday, May 17 will join with colleagues, MomsRising, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, A Better Balance, National Nurses United, National Partnership for Women & Families, Family Values @ Work, Glamour’s 28 Days Paid Leave Project, and Paid Leave For All – as
MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders and Jayapal to Hold Town Hall on Medicare for All at U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON, May 12 – At a time when 68,000 Americans die each year because they cannot afford the health care they desperately need and more than 1.1 million people in the United States have lost their lives to the pandemic – at least one third of which have been linked to lack of health insurance – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
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
