Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday that he is optimistic that Congress will pass legislation to significantly reduce prescription drug prices in the United States where consumers pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription medicine. The Senate voted Wednesday on an amendment by Sanders and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to let pharmacists,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 – Hours before a Senate vote Wednesday on a plan to rein in skyrocketing drug prices, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) agreed with President-elect Donald Trump’s sharp criticism of pharmaceutical companies. Trump told a news conference Wednesday in New York that drugmakers are “getting away with murder.” “You know what?” Sanders said in Senate floor speech soon afterward,

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 8 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed comments on Sunday from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, that President-elect Donald Trump would not “meddle with Medicare or Social Security.” Sanders said, however, that Trump must go further.   Trump must make it clear to Republicans in Congress that he would veto any legislation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed a Republican budget plan introduced Wednesday that he said would throw millions off health insurance, drive up already-skyrocketing prices seniors pay for prescription drugs and pave the way for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders also called on President-elect Donald Trump to pledge to veto any

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Jan. 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who made tuition-free public higher education a key proposal in his presidential campaign, joined Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday in unveiling a plan for New York public colleges and universities that Sanders called “a model for the rest of the nation.” Sanders and Cuomo appeared together before some

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement Friday in response to reports that President-elect Donald Trump is considering privatizing the Department of Veterans Affairs: “Privatizing the VA would be an insult to the more than 22 million veterans who risked their lives to defend our