Sanders Statement on Failure of Graham-Cassidy Bill

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Tuesday after Senate Republicans announced there would not be a vote on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act before the Sept. 30 budget reconciliation deadline: “Today, the American people won a major victory. We have stopped another disastrous Republican proposal which would have thrown millions of Americans

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Sanders and Colleagues Call on Trump to Crack Down on Offshoring

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) urged President Donald Trump to stop rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas and to take action to end offshoring. In a letter, the senators called on the president to issue an executive order terminating government contracts for companies that

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Congressional Delegation Announces $480,000 in Federal Funds for Electric Buses in Vermont

BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 19 – Vermont’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday that the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) will receive a $480,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to purchase two electric buses that will be used by Green Mountain Transit in Burlington. In June, the Vermont delegation wrote to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in support of the grant.

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Sanders Amendments Included in NDAA Reauthorization

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 ­– Two amendments by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were included in the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the Senate Monday. One of Sanders’ amendments provides statutory authorization for Beyond the Yellow Ribbon programs, which are state grants provided by the Department of Defense for programs which help members of the Armed Forces and

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Sanders Statement on CBO Review of Graham-Cassidy Bill

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday after the Congressional Budget Office said it will not have estimates of the impact of a Republican health care bill on insurance coverage or premiums in an assessment it plans to release early next week: “Today, we were informed by the Congressional Budget Office that it will

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17 Senators Introduce Medicare for All Act

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 16 of his Democratic colleagues introduced legislation Wednesday to guarantee health care to every American by expanding and improving Medicare. “Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all

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