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By: Mary Clare Jalonick; Associated Press As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders settles into his new role as chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues, he says some corporations “should be nervous.” And the longtime liberal crusader’s first target is Howard Schultz, the interim CEO of Starbucks who has aggressively fought his workers’ efforts to unionize. Sanders and the

By: Fortesa Latifi; Teen Vogue  Republicans have “been after Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid for a long, long time.” The first major fight of the 118th Congress has arrived on Capitol Hill. It’s about the debt ceiling, with some Republicans threatening to default on the United States national debt in order to score political concessions from Democrats. If it feels

By: Sarah Mearhoff; VTDigger Vermont’s senior U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is no stranger to the limelight and, by way of two presidential runs and 32 years in Congress, he has elevated his progressive politics — which date back to his early years as mayor of Burlington — to the forefront of American political discourse. But this year, Sanders will occupy

By: Stephen Neukam; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sander (I-Vt.) is pushing the Democratic National Committee to vote on a resolution to stop the spending of super PACs in primaries, ahead of the party’s winter meetings this week. “The Democratic Party must not allow Oligarchs and their super PACs, often aligned with Republicans, to buy Democratic Party primaries,” Sanders said in a

By: Sharon Zhang; truthout Because of inflation, fighting for a $15 an hour minimum wage is no longer enough, Sanders said. In his new role as the chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is calling for the minimum wage to be raised for the first time in nearly 14 years, saying

By: Peter Sullivan; Axios Sen. Bernie Sanders has long made no secret that he thinks drug companies and health insurers are ripping off Americans. But now he’s chairman of the Senate health committee. Why it matters: Sanders has signaled an early focus of the committee’s work will be drug prices, and manufacturers are bracing for some contentious hearings. “I have no