WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), on Wednesday applauded people with diabetes for organizing to force Eli Lilly and Company to reduce the cost of insulin by 70 percent. Sanders also sent letters to other major insulin makers - Sanofi and Novo Nordisk - calling on them to follow suit. "This is what fighting back accomplishes," Sanders said  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 2, 2023: Following Starbucks' response today to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee's upcoming vote on a subpoena for CEO Howard Schultz to testify on the coffee giant's lack of compliance with federal labor law, Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent the following letter to the company reiterating the commit  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release and letter on March 2, 2023: Following Starbucks' response today to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee's upcoming vote on a subpoena for CEO Howard Schultz to testify on the coffee giant's lack of compliance with federal labor law, Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent the following letter to the company reiterating the committee's request for Schultz to appear. * * * To: Zabrina J  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday announced that next week the committee will hold a vote on issuing a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to provide testimony about his company's lack of compliance with federal labor law and to authorize a committee investigation into major corporations' labor la  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release and letter: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), on Wednesday applauded people with diabetes for organizing to force Eli Lilly and Company to reduce the cost of insulin by 70 percent. Sanders also sent letters to other major insulin makers - Sanofi and Novo Nordisk - calling   more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday announced that next week the committee will hold a vote on issuing a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to provide testimony about his company's lack of compliance with federal labor law and to   more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), ranking member of the HELP Committee, requested input from health care providers and stakeholders on the root causes of the current health care workforce shortage and potential ways to address   more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 1, 2023: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) today reintroduced the Deerfield River Wild and Scenic River Study Act, legislation to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the Deerfield River--which runs from southern Vermont through western Massachusetts to the Connecticut River--to identify portions of the river and its tributaries th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) today announced that he will chair the Senate Agriculture Committee's Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee during the 118th Congress. Sen. Welch will also serve on additional influential subcommittees on the Agriculture, Judiciary, and Commerce committees, including the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm, calling on DOE to publish guidelines to expand consumer access to energy use data as it implements two key energy efficiency programs, the HOMES Rebate Program and the Smart Grid Program. The HOMES Rebate Program, which passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA  more