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By: Rachel Treisman; NPR News The Senate voted 49 to 51 on Wednesday not to advance a bill that would provide billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel, aid the White House says is essential for safeguarding democracy across the globe.   Republicans made good on their threat to block consideration of the bill unless it included their preferred border security and

By: Chris Walker; Truthout  “The American people have a right to know why it is that they pay the highest prices in the world,” said Bernie Sanders. Every single Democratic member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has signed off on an open letter to the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies, urging them to appear

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