Bernie Sanders

What scientists are telling us is that there is a reasonable chance that, God forbid, that a pandemic as deadly as COVID, COVID-19 could occur in 10 years.

How does it happen that we pay by far the highest prices of any major country for prescription drugs?

We see Medicare costs are extraordinarily high because they pay very high prices for the prescription drugs that they dispense.

Our job is to make sure that we are protecting the American people.

Senator Sanders' Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act as an 'open-source dividend.'

Do we all understand that the best drug in the world is meaningless if somebody can't afford it?

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other country on earth.

But the truth is that we were very, very unprepared for what hit us 3 years ago.

We dealt with the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

We lost over 1 million people from COVID.

The truth is that the Trump administration failed to provide adequate guidance and resources to states on how to administer these emergency unemployment benefits.

Through no fault of their own, Republicans and Democrats came together and passed the CARES Act by a vote of 96 to 0.

I strongly believe that Julie Su will be that Labor Secretary.

We need a Labor Secretary who will work each and every day to make it easier, not harder, for workers to exercise their Constitutional right to join unions.

We need a Labor Secretary who will strongly enforce the child labor laws that are on the books.

We need a Labor Secretary who understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

The truth is that the Trump administration failed to provide adequate guidance and resources to states on how to administer these emergency unemployment benefits.

Through no fault of their own, Republicans and Democrats came together and passed the CARES Act by a vote of 96 to 0.

I strongly believe that Julie Su will be that Labor Secretary.

We need a Labor Secretary who will strongly enforce the child labor laws that are on the books.

We need a Labor Secretary who understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

We need a Labor Secretary who understands that employees in America who are working 50 or 60 hours a week should not continue to be cheated out of the overtime pay that they have earned.

It is unacceptable that women in this country are earning just $0.84 on the dollar compared to men.

We need a Labor Secretary who will work each and every day to make it easier, not harder, for workers to exercise their Constitutional right to join unions.

The truth is that the Trump administration failed to provide adequate guidance and resources to states on how to administer these emergency unemployment benefits.