MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders to Hold Press Conference at White River Junction VA Medical Center, Visit Waterbury Ambulance Service

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 25 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday, January 26 will visit White River Junction and Waterbury. He will first hold a press conference at the White River Junction VA to discuss new renovations at the medical center, and publicly announce plans for a new, expanded Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in the Burlington area, long championed by

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PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders Calls on U.S. to Act on Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the responsibility of the U.S. government to use its leverage to deliver urgently-needed aid to Palestinians and demand an end to Israelโ€™s indiscriminate bombing campaign. The speech comes on the heels of Sandersโ€™ first-of-its-kind

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders on Wednesday to Hold Statewide Telephone Town Meeting

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 22 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold a statewide telephone town meeting on Wednesday, January 24 at 5:30 p.m. to hear directly from Vermonters about the challenges they are facing in their daily lives, their concerns for their families, their communities, their state, and the world, and how the federal government can work to address those

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NEWS: Sanders and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Combat Corporate Greed and End Outrageous CEO Pay

Today, a typical McDonaldโ€™s worker would have to work more than 1,200 years to earn the $17.77 million in compensation that McDonaldโ€™s CEO Chris Kempczinski was paid in 2022. In the 1970s, CEOs of successful U.S. corporations received roughly 20-30 times the average pay of their companyโ€™s middle-class workers. Today, a CEO at the largest 350 U.S. publicly-owned firms makes

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NEWS: Sanders Statement on Netanyahuโ€™s Recent Comments Rejecting Two-State Solution

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuโ€™s recent comments rejecting the idea of a two-state solution: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu recently said, โ€œIn any future arrangementโ€ฆIsrael needs security control of all territory west of the Jordan,โ€ adding that, โ€œI told this truth to our friends, the Americansโ€ฆthe prime

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NEWS: Chairman Sanders Announces HELP Committee Votes on Subpoenas for Johnson & Johnson and Merck CEOs

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 โ€“ At a time when the United States pays, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced today that the committee will, on Wednesday, January 31, hold votes to issue subpoenas for Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin

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