NEWS: Sanders Introduces Legislation to Finally Guarantee Paid Vacation to U.S. Workers

WASHINGTON, March 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, Pensions (HELP) Committee, this week introduced legislation that would ensure that the United States finally joins virtually every other major country on Earth in guaranteeing workers the right to earn paid annual vacation leave. This legislation comes just a week after Sanders introduced legislation and

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NEWS: Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Reintroduce Green New Deal for Public Housing Act

WASHINGTON, March 21 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) today reintroduced essential legislation that would take on the affordable housing crisis and the existential threat of climate change. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act invests up to $234 billion over ten years to transition the entire public housing stock in the United States into

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NEWS: Sanders Applauds GlaxoSmithKline for Capping Inhaler Costs at $35 Per Month

WASHINGTON, March 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday issued the following statement after GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the largest manufacturer of inhaler products in the United States, announced that it would cap out-of-pocket costs at $35 per month for its asthma and COPD inhalers no later than January 1,

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NEWS: Sanders, Doggett, Schakowsky and 9 Colleagues Send Bicameral Letter to Biden Calling for Equitable Access Standards as WHO Seeks to Address Future Pandemics

WASHINGTON, March 19 – As the United States participates this week in negotiations at the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish the Pandemic Accord, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health, and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.),

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NEWS: Sanders Secures More Than $42.5 Million for Vermont Communities in Senate Appropriations Bill

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced on Monday that he secured more than $42.5 million in federal funding on behalf of 36 Vermont projects that address critical needs across the state, including in affordable housing, child care, infrastructure, clean energy and water, and rural development. The funding for Sanders’ Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) projects was included

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