Press Releases

WASHINGTON, July 18 – Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Subcommittee Chair Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday issued the following statement: In America today, we have a dysfunctional and cruel health care system that is designed not to make patients well, but to make executives extraordinarily wealthy. There could not be a clearer example

WASHINGTON, July 18 – Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today issued the following statement: On Thursday, July 25th at 10:00 a.m., our committee will be holding a bipartisan vote to initiate an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care. The committee will vote to compel Ralph

Nearly Half of All Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Injured During Prime Day Week WASHINGTON, July 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released an interim report yesterday as part of the sweeping investigation he launched into Amazon’s unacceptable corporate greed and abysmal workplace safety practices. As part of this report, Sanders is making public,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) introduced the Streamlining International Food Assistance Act of 2024, legislation that strengthens the United States’ ability to address global hunger by allowing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to use funds from the Food for Peace (FFP) food aid program to provide donations of U.S. commodities,

WASHINGTON, July 12 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and his intention to block arms sales to Israel: While much of the media is focused on the drama of the U.S. presidential election, we must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement after dangerous flooding struck Vermont this week, one year after the floods of July 2023: It is hard to believe that one year has passed since last summer’s devastating floods – the worst natural disaster Vermont has faced since 1927. That painful memory was made even