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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today called for a bipartisan congressional investigation into the recent firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Susan Monarez by the Trump administration. Sanders condemned what...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement after hundreds of CDC workers walked out of their job to protest the Trump administration’s decision to oust senior scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and...

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside 10 Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon expressing outrage over the Trump administration’s harmful decision to indefinitely pause student loan forgiveness under...

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 4 — Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and...

WASHINGTON, July 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside seven Democratic members of the committee, launched an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s decision to gut the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...