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The HELP Committee subpoenaed de la Torre in July WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today issued the following statement after the CEO of Steward Health Care, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, refused to appear before the Committee despite a bipartisan subpoena compelling his testimony: I

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 29 – With the United States on track to spend more than $1 trillion on the military this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement about the rampant price gouging of major defense contractors and the transfer of taxpayer dollars to wealthy shareholders: Since Putin began this brutal war, Congress has appropriated $174.2 billion

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), on Tuesday issued the following statement after drugmaker Eli Lilly agreed to significantly lower the list price for the starter dose of its weight loss drug Zepbound: Last month, President Biden and I co-authored an op-ed demanding that Novo

BURLINGTON, Aug. 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), and other local housing leaders will come together this Friday, August 16, to celebrate breaking ground on the construction of new affordable housing and a veterans center in Burlington. Sanders secured $1 million for the project through the FY2022 Congressionally Directed Spending process. This

The retail price of the most commonly prescribed inhaler for children is between $172 and $313 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement calling on Prasco Laboratories and GlaxoSmithKline to immediately cap the cost of the authorized generic of Flovent – the most commonly