NEWS: Sanders Reintroduces Legislation to Give Every American Lifesaving N95 Masks
More than 50 Democratic Colleagues Joined Sanders to Sponsor the Masks for All Act in the House and Senate WASHNGTON, Jan. 12 – As the world enters the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, with Omicron surging and cases skyrocketing, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Wednesday, with more than 50 of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and House, reintroduced lifesaving
NEWS: Sanders and Padilla Lead Letter with Colleagues to Billionaire Bob Rich in Support of Striking Bakery Workers in California
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) Tuesday, along with their colleagues Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), sent a letter to Bob Rich Jr., Chairman and majority owner of the Rich Products Corporation, to express support for the 100 or so bakery workers
NEWS: Sanders Statement on Medicare Limiting Coverage for Alzheimer’s Drug
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Tuesday issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a rule that would cover Aduhelm, the outrageously expensive Alzheimer’s treatment, and similar drugs in development only for people enrolled in qualifying clinical trials: “Biogen’s outrageous original price for Aduhelm, $56,000 per year, is the poster child for
NEWS: Sanders, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Protect Consumers Against High Heating and Energy Prices This Winter
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with colleagues in both the Senate and House of Representatives, Wednesday sent a a bicameral letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick urging the agency to use its authority to protect consumers from unfairly high energy costs. “We write to express our concern in regard to the effect that anticipated increases
NEWS: Sanders and Colleagues Push to Solve the Nursing Crisis in Vermont
Burlington, Vt., Jan. 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Governor Phil Scott, and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint – on behalf of both herself and House Speaker Jill Krowinski – came together Monday to discuss Vermont’s nursing workforce crisis. Estimates suggest that Vermont needs to add approximately 9,000 nurses to the state’s workforce in the next seven years. However,
