Bernie Sanders

I have been on the Senate Health, Education and Labor Pension Committee for 18 years, and you know what, we have never had a larger meeting than this.

For working class people, lower income people, the gap in their life expectancy with the rich is about 10 years in America.

In the United States of America, we spend almost twice as much per capita as any other major country.

Will you commit to us that you will work to make sure that Americans do not pay higher prices for prescription drugs in this country than people around the world?

We need a NIH Director who is prepared to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and use every tool at his or her disposal to substantially lower the outrageous cost of prescription drugs.

The outrageously high cost of prescription drugs in America is a crisis and it must be addressed.

What does one say to a person to say thank you for your tax dollars developing the drug, but I am sorry you can't afford the treatment you need to save your life.

Every treatment I have received was supported by NIH funded research

The status quo is not working. We need fundamental changes in the way that the NIH addresses the crisis of prescription drugs.

The health care system in our Country is broken and it is failing.

We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other industrialized nation.

Right now, we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

We pay for the research, drug companies develop the drug, they make billions, and then they charge us the highest prices in the world for the product.

One out of four Americans cannot afford to pay for the medicine they need.

I applaud the Department of Energy very much for the work that they are doing.

They are producing 90 percent of the electricity they require in a manufacturing facility.

It is a huge success story, significant reduction in their fuel bills.

As a result of energy efficiency and geothermal--and soon they're going to add solar--they have cut their fuel bills by 75 percent.

Israel had the right to defend itself against Hamas and respond to the barbaric October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took over 240 hostages.

We think that there is also an appropriate place to address that issue.

Last week, Senators Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray and 33 others introduced the Child Care Stabilization Act.

Democrats in Congress responded to this threat by providing $50 billion in Federal funding to help stabilize the childcare industry.

Last week, Senators Bernie Sanders, Patsy Murray, and 33 others, introduced the 'Child Care Stabilization Act'.

President Biden has proposed that at least for those people making $1 million a year in income, we should tax capital gains at the same rate that we do for individual wage earners.

Yes, we should be making these choices, and that is a choice that I think that we should be making for the common good.