Press Releases

WASHINGTON, July 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after an updated analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed that Senate Republicans’ proposal to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement would leave 32 million more Americans without health insurance over the next decade: “The CBO report that just came out analyzing

WASHINGTON, July 19 – At a time when over 5.3 million young people in America do not have jobs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) announced Wednesday at the Sasha Bruce Youthwork center in Washington, D.C. that they will introduce legislation to help young people find work. Sanders, Conyers and Holmes Norton

WASHINGTON, July 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday evening after Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) announced they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving Republicans short of enough votes to pass the legislation: “I am delighted to see that the disastrous Republican health care plan will not

WASHINGTON, July 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after Senate Republicans released the revised version of their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act: “The revised Republican ‘health care’ plan is an absolute disaster that will inflict severe economic pain on millions of Americans. That is why it is opposed by virtually every major health

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Friday that one of the great ironies of the current health care debate in Washington is that those states that voted heavily for Trump and Republicans, including Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s own state of Kentucky, will be punished the most by the Republican health care plan. Sanders will be

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 30 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, to “end backroom deals” and “begin the national discussion” on health care. “Instead of holding backroom meetings, Sen. McConnell, you and the Republican leadership must allow bi-partisan discussion as to how we