Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 25 – 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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 – 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 Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaign. The speech comes on the heels of Sanders’ first-of-its-kind

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 22 – 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

Today, a typical McDonald’s worker would have to work more than 1,200 years to earn the $17.77 million in compensation that McDonald’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 company’s middle-class workers. Today, a CEO at the largest 350 U.S. publicly-owned firms makes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments rejecting the idea of a two-state solution: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu recently said, “In any future arrangement…Israel needs security control of all territory west of the Jordan,” adding that, “I told this truth to our friends, the Americans…the prime

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 – 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