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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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