Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 15—Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led a letter with eight of his Senate colleagues to Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, condemning the corporation’s “insulting and demeaning” anti-union campaign targeting 40,000 of its employees. Sanders was joined by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ed Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth

WASHINGTON, May 14 – In response to news reports that the Department of Defense presented the Trump Administration with a military plan that proposes sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter Iran, Senator Sanders (I-Vt,) issued a live address, streamed on Facebook and Twitter: “Let me be as clear as I can be: a war

WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled new legislation, The Loan Shark Prevention Act, to combat the predatory lending practices of America’s big banks and protect consumers who are burdened with exorbitant credit-card interest rates. The legislation imposes a 15-percent federal cap on interest rates and empowers individual states to establish lower limits.

WASHINGTON, May 8 – Senator Sanders released the following statement in response to news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved treatment for pediatric Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), a rare neuromuscular disorder. In February, Sanders sent a letter to the CEO of Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, demanding an explanation for its decision to set the price of its drug, Firdapse, at $375,000 a year. “This

WASHINGTON, May 6 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement regarding the retirement of Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY): Although we have had serious differences on policy issues, I consider Sen. Enzi a friend whom I’ve enjoyed working with in our time leading the Budget Committee and the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security. I wish him and his

WASHINGTON, May 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement following a Senate vote on whether to override the president’s veto of S.J. Res. 7: “The bad news today: we were unable today to override Trump’s veto regarding U.S. intervention in this horrific war in Yemen. The good news: for the first time in 45 years, Congress used the