NEWS: Sanders, Murray, Scott, and 106 Colleagues Urge Department of Education to Address FAFSA Rollout Issues

โ€œThe recent announcements from the Department were a welcome first stepโ€ฆBut now, it is imperative that we all work together to ensure no student falls through the cracks or faces unnecessary challenges in accessing the aid they are due,โ€ wrote the members in a letter to the Department of Education. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 โ€“ As the traditional May 1st โ€œcollege

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NEWS: Sanders Urges Colleagues to Vote โ€œNOโ€ on Sending $14 Billion toFund Netanyahuโ€™s Horrific War

โ€œAs long as this bill contains money to fund Netanyahuโ€™s cruel war, I will do everything I can to oppose it. I urge my colleagues to do the same.โ€ โ€œThis is really quite unbelievable โ€“ does the United States Congress really want to provide more military aid to Netanyahu so that he can annihilate thousands and thousands more innocent men,

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NEWS: Sanders, โ€œI will vote NO on any bill containing offensive military aid to Netanyahuโ€

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 โ€” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on his opposition to the latest $95 billion supplemental appropriations bill under consideration in the Senate: Earlier today, I voted NO on the motion to proceed to the latest supplemental appropriations bill. Let me be clear: So long as this bill contains $10 billion to enable Netanyahuโ€™s

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MEDIA ADVISORY: HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Outrageous Cost of Prescription Drugs, CEOs to Testify

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 โ€“ The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will hold a hearing Thursday, February 8 at 10:00 a.m. ET titled, โ€œWhy Does the United States Pay, by Far, the Highest Prices in the World for Prescription Drugs?โ€ with the CEOs of Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck all

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NEWS: HELP Majority Staff Releases Report Revealing Big Pharmaโ€™s Business Model

Big Pharmaโ€™s Business Model: Corporate Greed WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 โ€“ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) released today a new report detailing the rigged system that allows Big Pharma to charge Americans the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. The HELP Committee Majority Staff uncovered how three U.S.

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