Tag: Bernie Sanders
Sanders demands probe of push to give company patent for public-funded...
Sanders demanded a probe of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) patent proposal in a letter to Christi Grimm, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Bernie Sanders champions ’32-hour work week with no loss in pay’
"Changes that benefit the working class of our country are not going to be easily handed over by the corporate elite. They have to be fought for—and won."
Pharma lobby furious over wildly popular effort to curb drug prices
"This is the biggest defeat Big Pharma has ever suffered—and it won't be the last. We are going to keep fighting until every single person in America can get the medications they need."
Sanders aims to convince Fox News readers climate action ‘is a...
"If this is what you believe I would respectfully disagree and I would urge you to get on the phone and call friends and family around the country to hear about what their communities are experiencing."
Sanders ‘disappointed, but not surprised,’ as Senate rejects 10% military spending...
"Spending $886 billion on the Pentagon will not make us safer."
Sanders warns of ‘dystopian future’ if governments don’t immediately act on...
"We must act and act boldly. Our earth is warming rapidly. We see this every day, in every part of the world."
Sanders, Jayapal re-up plan to make college tuition-free by taxing Wall...
Sanders' office called the proposal "the most substantial expansion of higher education access since the Great Society and President Lyndon B. Johnson's Higher Education Act of 1965."
Sanders-led panel exposes Big Pharma for ‘ripping off’ Americans with publicly...
"It is unacceptable that half of new prescription drugs invented with the help of NIH scientists now cost more than $111,000," said the HELP Committee chair, urging action by the Biden administration to cut prices.
When 3 men richer than 165 million people, Sanders says working...
Big-money special interests "want to divide us up," said the independent senator at a living wage rally in South Carolina, "and we are determined to bring working people together."
Sanders, Jayapal, Dingell more than 120 colleagues in House and Senate...
"The American people understand, as I do, that health care is a human right, not a privilege."