WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on March 3, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Sunday by Congressional leadership: Over the past year, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee has been to address the primary care crisis in America and the massive sh  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), with Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging, Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Markwayne Mullin (  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: * * * Rep. Balint Announces State of the Union Guest: Chloe Learey Highlighting need for solutions to urgent childcare and housing crises Washington, D.C - Today, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) announced Chloe Learey, Executive Director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development as her guest for the State of the Union address. "Childcare and housing are at the root of so m  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Balint Votes to Pass Bipartisan Government Domestic Funding Legislation Washington, D.C - Today, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL), member of the House Budget Committee, voted 'YES' on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, a package of six domestic funding bills focused on helping families and communities across the United States. The investments in the bill will create and sustain good-paying jobs  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: With the United States on track to spend more than $1 trillion on the military this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and five colleagues this week sent a letter to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urging him to reconstitute the World War II-era Truman Committee to investigate war profiteering and price gouging in the American military industrial complex. Sanders was joined on the letter by Sens. Ron  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on March 7, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday issued the following statement after Boehringer Ingelheim announced that it would cap patient copays for all of its inhalers at $35 starting on June 1, 2024. The company also announced that it will lower the list price of some of its inhalers. The announcement comes  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on March 3, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement urging President Biden to invoke Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, demand Netanyahu restore humanitarian aid access to Gaza or lose U.S. military assistance to Israel: Starvation is taking place in Gaza. Israel is prohibiting aid convoys from delivering desperately needed food and water. This is in clear viol  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on President Biden's decision to build an emergency port to immediately deliver critical supplies to Gaza: I welcome President Biden's decision to direct the U.S. military to establish an emergency port on the Gaza coast to allow large quantities of food, water, medicine, and other essential supplies to be delivered directly to the peo  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on March 3, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Sunday by Congressional leadership: Over the past year, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee has   more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on March 7, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday issued the following statement after Boehringer Ingelheim announced that it would cap patient copays for all of its inhalers at $35 starting on June 1, 2024. The company also announced that it will   more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), with Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging, Tim Kaine (D-Va.),  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took to the Senate Floor yesterday to call out Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's failure to deliver for rural America. Welch pointed to the postal delays plaguing Vermont and other rural areas because of DeJoy's policies, and the lack of a fully functioning Post Office in Vermont's capital city as examples: "This is the United States of America. The Postal Service is older than the C  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) along with U.S. Representatives Kathy Castor (D-Fla.-14) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.-20) sent a letter to U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Willie Phillips and Commissioners Allison Clements and Mark Christie urging the Commission to adhere to the Federal Power Act and implement a shared savings incentive that promotes the deploymen  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Welch to join Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act next week U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) reintroduced the John R. Lewis  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: In the wake of the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos created during the IVF process are "children" under state law, support continues to grow for legislation introduced by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and cosponsored by Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) to protect access to IVF and other assisted reproductive technology (ART) nationwide. The Access to Family Buil  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in sending a letter to the Biden Administration urging swift action and increased international pressure to hold the Ortega-Murillo regime   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement in advance of tonight's State of the Union Address: "I look forward to reflecting on the progress the Biden-Harris Administration has made in the last year. Gas is less expensive, Medicare is making historic moves and negotiating for lower drug prices, more people are working than at any point in our nation's history, student loan borrowers ar  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler raising concerns of potential greenwashing in ExxonMobil's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources (Pioneer) and Chevron Corporation's acquisition of Hess Corporation, despite both companies'   more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.),and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) led the introduction of a resolution affirming the United States' support for the Republic of North Macedonia's European Union (EU) Accession. The Senators highlighted the strength of the transatlantic relationship between the United States, the Republic of North Macedonia and Europe. "The Repu  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today reacted to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) formal notice to Internet Service Providers that, without action by Congress, April is the final full month the Affordable Connectivity Program will be funded. Today's announcement comes after FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel's notice to Congress in January that the FCC would be forced to freeze new enrollmen  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today delivered remarks from the Senate floor about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and the need for the United States to stop accommodating Prime Minister Netanyahu's government - which has repeatedly repudiated Democratic and Republican administrations and the U.S. Congress. To view a livestream of the Senator's remarks, please click the image below  more