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By: Stephanie Lai; New York Times  The Senator has set a Wednesday vote to compel Howard Schultz, the billionaire Starbucks chief executive, to testify in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.  Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday confirmed that his committee will hold a vote this week to open an investigation into federal labor law violations by

By: Sahil Kapur; NBC News The company says Schultz is “not the right witness” for a hearing and offered others in the organization to testify about labor practices. Sanders plans to hold a vote next week. Starbucks is pushing back against Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee he chairs ahead of a vote

Analysis by Rachel Roubein with research by McKenzie Beard; Washington Post Moderna’s CEO will testify before the Senate as the company faces backlash over a looming vaccine price hike Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is hauling his first pharma CEO to Capitol Hill. In a hearing next month, the new chair of the Senate’s sweeping health panel is planning to publicly grill Stéphane Bancel, the top executive

By: Alia Wong; USA Today Having met and fallen in love through their careers as special education teachers, Natalia Sandoval and her husband tried to make it work as long as they could. But after a while, they could no longer get by on two teacher salaries while raising two sons in Hawaii, not to mention paying back the student loan

By Liz Goodwin; Washington Post The senator plans to use a Senate committee to highlight what he calls a ‘morality crisis’ in the pharmaceutical industry   Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to grill the CEO of Moderna about his reported plans to raise the price of the coronavirus vaccine in a Senate hearing next month that Sanders hopes will convince the company to

By: Madeline Will; Ed Week Sen. Bernie Sanders will soon introduce legislation to pay teachers a minimum of $60,000 a year, complementing similar efforts in the House as the conversation about low teacher wages picks up steam. Sanders, the independent from Vermont who is the chairman of the Senate’s health, education, labor, and pensions committee, announced his plans to introduce the Pay