Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 17 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Thursday that 11 federally qualified community health centers in Vermont received $816,251 to help improve access to affordable health care throughout the state. The federal grants are part of $105 million in funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration awarded throughout the country. More than 171,000 Vermonters –

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 15 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump held a press conference Tuesday where he blamed “both sides” for violence at a white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia: “President Trump. You are embarrassing our country and the millions of Americans who fought and died to defeat Nazism. The violence in

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 12 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement on the white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia: “The white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a reprehensible display of racism and hatred that has no place in our society. I am disgusted by the news, and my thoughts are with those in the Charlottesville community

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after President Donald Trump warned he could unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea: “President Trump’s bombastic rhetoric is not appropriate when we are dealing with the possibility of a nuclear war that could kill millions of people. North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and

WASHINGTON, August 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee, introduced legislation Thursday to expand and improve veterans’ access to health care by addressing the large number of unfilled positions in the Veterans Health Administration. There are currently over 45,000 vacancies in the VA health care system, including about 36,000 in frontline care positions.

WASHINGTON, July 31 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) proposed a rule Monday that would end price gouging on prescription drugs and other health care products developed with taxpayer money. Sanders and DeFazio reintroduced their bill, which they first proposed two decades ago with bipartisan support, after drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur refused to agree to fair pricing