Welch, Sanders, Schumer, and Gillibrand Introduce Bicameral Bill to Support the Health of the Lake Champlain Basin
Balint introduced companion legislation in the House. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a senior and longtime member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y), and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the bicameral Lake Champlain Basin Program Reauthorization Act – legislation that would reauthorize the Lake
NEWS: Sanders on Netanyahu Addressing Congress This Week
WASHINGTON, July 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress this week: As I stated last month, I will not be attending the address of Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress on Wednesday. I agree with both the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and
NEWS: Sanders and Markey Joint Statement on Upcoming Vote to Investigate and Subpoena Steward Health Care on Bankruptcy
WASHINGTON, July 18 – Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Subcommittee Chair Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Thursday issued the following statement: In America today, we have a dysfunctional and cruel health care system that is designed not to make patients well, but to make executives extraordinarily wealthy. There could not be a clearer example
NEWS: Sanders and Cassidy Announce Bipartisan Subpoena Vote and Investigation into Bankruptcy of Steward Health Care
WASHINGTON, July 18 – Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today issued the following statement: On Thursday, July 25th at 10:00 a.m., our committee will be holding a bipartisan vote to initiate an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care. The committee will vote to compel Ralph
NEWS: Sanders Releases Report Documenting the Outrageous Level of Corporate Greed at Amazon
Nearly Half of All Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Injured During Prime Day Week WASHINGTON, July 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released an interim report yesterday as part of the sweeping investigation he launched into Amazon’s unacceptable corporate greed and abysmal workplace safety practices. As part of this report, Sanders is making public,
