Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 15 — As part of his investigation into the outrageously high price of Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a stunning new report exposing the potential of weight loss drugs to bankrupt American health care. In the report, HELP Committee

WASHINGTON, May 15 – In a recent letter to President Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined with nine other senators from disaster-impacted states to urge the administration to reevaluate and resubmit its request for supplemental disaster funding. The letter comes as Congress is reviewing requests for FY2025 funding priorities and as communities across the country are

WASHINGTON, May 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, this Thursday, May 16 at 10:00 a.m. ET, will lead the committee in a hearing titled, “Examining the Dental Care Crisis in America: How Can We Make Dental Care More Affordable and More Available?” “In America today we have a dental

WASHINGTON, May 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement outlining the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza and urging President Biden to make clear that further attacks on Rafah will result in the end of all U.S. military aid to the Netanyahu government: For five days, almost no humanitarian aid has gotten into Gaza. Israel’s military operation

WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday released the following statement regarding the threat of Israel’s all-out assault on Rafah: Almost 35,000 Palestinians have already been killed in this war, and more than 78,000 have been wounded – 70 percent of whom are women and children. As we speak, hundreds of thousands more children face the possibility

WASHINGTON, May 8 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), with Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), today introduced legislation to eliminate all $220 billion in medical debt held by millions of Americans, wipe it from credit reports, and drastically limit the accrual of future medical debt.  The medical debt crisis has exploded in recent years, decimating Americans’ bank