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By: Lisa Mascaro; AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war. In a letter to Senate colleagues on Wednesday, Sanders said the U.S.

By: STEVE LeBLANC, AP News BOSTON (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he is prepared to pursue contempt charges against Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre if he fails to show up at a hearing Thursday despite being issued a subpoena. Sanders said de la Torre needs to answer to the American people about how he was able

By: Bret Wilkins; Common Dreams “Dr. de la Torre will be held accountable for his greed and the damage he has caused the American people and our nation’s healthcare system.” Taking aim at Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre’s refusal to comply with a Senate subpoena, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday said the committee he chairs will still hold a hearing

By: Jessica Corbett; Common Dreams “The legislation that we have introduced finally recognizes that long Covid is a public health emergency and provides an historic investment into research, development, and education,” he said. Over four months after seeking public comments on long Covid legislation, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday unveiled a bill to help tackle the crisis “that is affecting more than

By: Dan Diamond; Washington Post Senators say executives at Steward, the nation’s largest physician-led hospital system, mismanaged finances and put patient care at risk. A Senate committee Thursday formally opened a bipartisan investigation into Steward Health Care, the nation’s largest physician-led hospital system, and voted to subpoena the company’s CEO, alleging that Steward executives had mismanaged the system’s finances and

By: Robert Weisman; Boston Globe A pair of US senators Thursday said they’ll ask a Senate panel next week to subpoena Steward Health Care founder and chief executive Ralph de la Torre to testify about his role in leading the national hospital chain, which filed for bankruptcy on May 6. The senators, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said they’ll