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By: Sydney Lupkin; NPR News Can the National Institutes of Health bring down drug prices? It doesn’t approve new medicines or pay for them, but its role in drug research gives it surprising leverage. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, voted against confirmation of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as NIH director. Sanders, a Vermont independent

By: Michael Sainato;  The Guardian  If the US is “going to save the middle class” then Democrats and Republicans must come together to back the newly resurgent labor movement, Bernie Sanders told the Guardian this week ahead of a Senate hearing on the benefits of unions. Sanders is holding a Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee hearing on Tuesday with US labor

Manchester Journal WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that financial aid provided by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic helped millions of working-class Americans reduce their credit card debt. It was the first time in nearly a decade that the share of active credit

By: Sophie Nieto-Munoz; New Jersey Monitor Hundreds of nurses and health care professionals packed an auditorium at Rutgers University Friday to watch Sen. Bernie Sanders lead a Senate committee hearing focused on the months-long nurses strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. “Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson and workers all over this country want better wages and

By: Joe Davidson; Washington Post Will the United States ever get health care right? Despite the progress made under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, significant health care holes remain, particularly for low-income people. One big hole is the cost of hospitalization for people who should get charity care but don’t. New research by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and

By: Bob Kinzel; Vermont Public Sen. Bernie Sanders is urging his colleagues to support a major humanitarian aid package for the more than two million Palestinians living in Gaza. Speaking on the Senate floor, Sanders strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks launched by Hamas against Israel and said the Israeli government had every right to respond. At the same time, Sanders