Sanders Ahead of Vote to Subpoena CEOs to Testify on Outrageously High Prices of Prescription Drugs in America

Johnson & Johnson prices Stelara exorbitantly in comparison to other high-income markets.

Sanders Ahead of Vote to Subpoena CEOs to Testify on Outrageously High Prices of Prescription Drugs in America

Merck has managed to extend its monopoly pricing power over Januvia through unfair patenting practices.

I would like to say a few words about the urgent humanitarian catastrophe now unfolding in Gaza. The reason I want to do that is I just have the feeling that most people--maybe here in the Senate and throughout the country--are just not…

Johnson & Johnson prices Stelara exorbitantly in comparison to other high-income markets.

Sanders Ahead of Vote to Subpoena CEOs to Testify on Outrageously High Prices of Prescription Drugs in America.

Merck has managed to extend its monopoly pricing power over Januvia through unfair patenting practices.

be more aggressive in addressing the anxieties of millions of struggling voters, or risk handing back the White House to the anti-democratic demagogue Donald Trump.

The symptoms of long COVID are not minor inconveniences. They are debilitating conditions that affect the ability of people to work, to care for their families, and to live full lives.

We would be all in failure if we--if our children face a future pandemic and get hit with another long something--long virus in 2030 or something, and they don't know how to treat it.

We need a fundamental overhaul of our health care system with a Congress that is able to do it.

This will not only help you address the issue of long COVID. It will also help us solve the puzzle of ME/CFS and all other infection associated chronic conditions that have been ignored for decades and help us prepare for the next pandemic.

We know that long COVID can include more than 200 symptoms, including serious cognitive impairment and severe cardiovascular and neurological problems that can continue for weeks, months, or even years after initial infection.

We think we have not, as a Congress, done anywhere near enough, and we hope to turn that around.

The reality is we are going to hear from our panelists for a moment, is that long COVID is a very serious illness that can have devastating consequences for those who contract it in America today.

We must address the challenge of Long Covid.

This crisis is made even worse by the fact that long COVID patients often require multiple specialists to treat their complex symptoms.

You have an historic opportunity to act. The lives of millions of Americans now and in the future depend on this.

With enough political will, we can fund a Long COVID moonshot that transforms clinical and community care for all of us.

The U.S. should consider the establishment within the National Institutes of Health of an Institute for Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses.

let me apologize to my colleagues for being late. It turns out today was not a great day to travel by plane. I thank the leadership for delaying the vote as well. We will soon be voting on a resolution requesting information on Israel's…

I ask unanimous consent that the following Senators be permitted to speak prior to the vote: Senator Sanders for up to 25 minutes, Senator Merkley for up to 5 minutes, and Senator Cardin for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, I move to discharge the Committee on Foreign Relations from further consideration of S. Res. 504. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The senior assistant…

24,000 Palestinians are dead, 70 percent of whom are women and children, 70 percent of the housing stock has been damaged or destroyed, and almost 2 million people are trying to survive with inadequate supplies of food, water, medical…