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WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, alongside Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related...

WASHINGTON, May 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a new report uncovering the far-reaching scope of Trump’s attacks on science and their impact on public health. “Since January, Trump has launched an unprecedented, illegal and outrageous attack on...

WASHINGTON, May 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released the following statement regarding President Trump's executive order from this morning, which claims it will slash drug costs by tying the prices of some medicine in the U.S. to the significantly...

WASHINGTON, April 25 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), alongside Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and 39 of their Democratic colleagues, wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to call out the Trump...

WASHINGTON, April 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement about the Trump administration’s decision to cut an Ebola prevention grant to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Red Cross) that it had canceled, reinstated, and now canceled again. In February, Elon Musk said he had...