Sanders Slams ‘Corporate Greed’ As Moderna CEO Won’t Commit to Lower COVID-19 Vaccine Cost
By: Kyla Russell; CBS News In the face of senators’ criticism, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel did not agree to lower the commercial cost of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine in a hearing Wednesday on the vaccine’s price. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, opened the hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee by slamming “an unprecedented level of corporate greed”
Sanders Introduces Bill to Block Bank Execs From Serving on Fed Boards
By: Karl Evers-Hillstrom; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation on Thursday to prohibit bank executives from serving on the boards of regional Federal Reserve banks tasked with supervising their firm. Lawmakers have expressed outrage that former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Gregory Becker served on the board of directors at the San Francisco Federal Reserve, which failed to address the bank’s issues prior
Sanders Pushes Funding Boost for Rural Health Care
By WCAX News Team; WCAX Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is eyeing new federal funding for rural health care. Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions, says he wants to pass legislation lowering the cost of prescription drugs and raising the minimum wage. Despite the slim Democratic majority in the Senate and a Republican majority in
Starbucks Tries to Thwart Bernie Sanders’ Bid to Subpoena Howard Schultz
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
Bernie Sanders Wants to Haul Big Pharma in Front of Congress
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
Teacher Salaries Become a Bipartisan Cause: Low Pay ‘A Major Crisis in Education’
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
