Press Releases

Senators to Ask Unanimous Consent to Take Up Legislation to Allow Medicare to Pay Same Prices for Drugs as VA WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Wednesday will formally demand that the U.S. Senate begin debate on legislation to lower prescription drug prices for millions of Americans. “For far too long, it has

Burlington, Vt., Feb. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold a statewide virtual town meeting with Vermont middle and high school students on Wednesday, February 16. A panel of students will join Sanders for a discussion to speak about the issues that matter most to them. The panel discussion will be followed by a question and answer session, with

Over the last 30 years, emergency call volume has tripled, yet firefighter recruitment and retention has become increasingly more difficult, severely affecting the safety of communities WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday introduced legislation to address the major staffing crisis affecting both career and volunteer fire departments. Recruiting and retaining both volunteer and career firefighters has

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today will hold a committee hearing at 2:30 p.m. ET to consider the nomination of the Honorable Shalanda D. Young of Louisiana to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the nomination of the Honorable Nani A. Coloretti of California to be Deputy

U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell joined Sanders to speak on the staffing crisis Burlington, Vt., Jan. 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday, joined by U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, held a virtual town meeting with Vermont firefighters and EMS providers to discuss the serious staffing crisis facing fire and EMS departments in Vermont and in other

Update: Panelists from Fair Haven, Walden, Bristol, Thetford, Whiting, and Hartford will be joining Sanders, including the President of the Professional Firefighters of Vermont and Miss Vermont, a volunteer firefighter. Burlington, Vt., Jan. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), joined by U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, will hold a virtual town meeting with Vermont firefighters and EMS providers on