Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), on Tuesday issued the following statement after drugmaker Eli Lilly agreed to significantly lower the list price for the starter dose of its weight loss drug Zepbound: Last month, President Biden and I co-authored an op-ed demanding that Novo

BURLINGTON, Aug. 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), and other local housing leaders will come together this Friday, August 16, to celebrate breaking ground on the construction of new affordable housing and a veterans center in Burlington. Sanders secured $1 million for the project through the FY2022 Congressionally Directed Spending process. This

The retail price of the most commonly prescribed inhaler for children is between $172 and $313 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement calling on Prasco Laboratories and GlaxoSmithKline to immediately cap the cost of the authorized generic of Flovent – the most commonly

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) wrote today to President Biden urging him to quickly approve the Major Disaster Declaration request issued formally today by Governor Phil Scott. This disaster declaration would bring critical federal resources to Vermont to help individuals and communities recover after devastating flooding this summer. As

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today introduced legislation to address the long COVID crisis that is affecting more than 22 million adults and 1 million children across the United States – and millions more around the globe. The Long COVID Research Moonshot Act of 2024