What’s in Sanders’ ‘bold’ plan for health care
By: Daniel Payne and Burgess Everett; Politico His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate. Sen. Bernie Sanders is launching his latest push as one of the Senate’s most powerful committee chairs: to pour nearly $200 billion of
Is Bernie Sanders happy?
By: Kara Voght; The Washington Post He didn’t get to be president, but the senator from Vermont is spending his twilight years doing what he loves: Publicly grilling CEOs Bernie Sanders sits in the conference room of his Capitol Hill office wearing an unfamiliar countenance: The senator is beaming. He slaps a sheet of printer paper onto the table in
Historically Black medical schools urge more spending in hearing with Bernie Sanders
By: Jeff Amy; AP ATLANTA — To train more Black doctors, the federal government needs to bolster funding and make more training slots available for historically Black medical schools, leaders of those universities told U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. “Our HBCU medical schools are the backbone of training Black doctors in this country.” Dr. Hugh Mighty, Howard University’s senior
Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders to introduce free school meals legislation
By: David Smith, The Guardian Representative Ilhan Omar, Senator Bernie Sanders and colleagues are set to introduce legislation on Thursday to revive one of the coronavirus pandemic era’s most popular social experiments: universal free school meals. The bill would permanently end child hunger in schools, they argue, by offering free breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a snack to all students from
Bernie Sanders’ new rules: HHS nominees must commit to drug price cuts
By: Rachel Roubein; The Washington Post Bernie Sanders threatens to block Biden health appointees who are too soft on drug industry Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is warning the White House: Health and Human Services nominees who aren’t prepared to “stand up and fight” the drug industry will likely lose his vote. “I will strongly oppose any future nominee to a major federal health
Sanders praises shop workers, Ben & Jerry’s on union effort
By: Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers seeking to unionize at a Ben & Jerry’s retail shop in Burlington, Vermont, the city where the ice cream brand was founded announced Friday that the company has signed the fair election principles. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent who has been a vocal supporter of Starbucks labor organizers, congratulated the Ben &
