#bernie-sanders

#bernie-sanders

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has a predictably unsparing view of the effects of unfettered capitalism: it destroys anything that gets in its way in the pursuit of profits.It destroys the environment.It destroys our democracy.It discards human beings without a second thought.It will never provide workers with the fulfillment that Americans have a right to expect from their careers.

As chair of the Senate HELP Committee, Sanders has the unilateral power to block health-related nominees.Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has fired a shot across the bow to the White House in his latest move in his quest to lower prescription drug prices in the U.S.
Sanders has vowed to oppose all health-related nominees, including President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), until the Biden administration presents a "comprehensive" plan to address the prescription drug price crisis in the U.S.
"I will oppose all nominations until we have a very clear strategy on the part of the government ... as to how we're going to lower the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs," Sanders told The Washington Post.

Invoking the 14th Amendment to lift the borrowing cap on the US debt ceiling as a way to work around slow-moving negotiations is not an option, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told CNN Friday, the administration's most definitive response yet to an unlikely option demanded by some progressives.

The 14th Amendment touches on many aspects of citizens' rights and is commonly known for its "equal protection of the laws."The Amendment has appeared in cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Bush v. Gore and more.Many legal scholars suggest a clause in the 14th Amendment that says the "validity of the public debt, authorized by law ... shall not be questioned" could apply to the debt limit.

As concerns about the debt ceiling heat up, a group of Democratic senators is planning to send Joe Biden a letter requesting he use his authority under the 14th amendment of the constitution to continue paying the US government's bills, even if the debt ceiling is not raised.Democratic senators including Tina Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders, an independent, argued that Republicans are not negotiating in good faith.

Their new bill would place a cap on the value of gifts that Supreme Court justices are allowed to receive.Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong / Getty Images Amid numerous scandals that have revealed the deep corruption on the Supreme Court bench, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) have reintroduced a bill seeking to reverse the relative impunity that Supreme Court justices enjoy and enact a set of binding ethical rules.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified during a much-anticipated hearing led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Wednesday, parroting what appeared to be blatant lies about the company's fierce anti-union campaign and hundreds of labor law violations over the past year and a half.

"Starbucks has engaged in the most significant union-busting campaign in modern history," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023.Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images A Senate committee headed by Bernie Sanders of Vermont released a report late Sunday aimed at debunking Starbucks' narrative that it supports workers' rights and has not committed large-scale violations of U.S. labor law - claims that former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will likely repeat when he testifies before the panel later this week.

Around the time that Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, there was a lot of chatter about how anti-Trump Republicans were poised to repeat the failures of 2016, by declining to take on Trump directly and letting him walk unscathed to the nomination.This take seemed wrong in two ways.First, unlike in 2016, anti-Trump Republicans had a singular, popular alternative in Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, whose polling was competitive with Trump's and way ahead of any other rival.

Schultz is slated to testify before Bernie Sanders's Senate HELP Committee next week.CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz drinks an espresso he made at Starbucks Reserve on the first floor of Starbucks Headquarters on Investor Day in Seattle, Washington, on September 13, 2022.Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images Howard Schultz announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his post as Starbucks CEO two weeks earlier than his scheduled departure date, resigning just before a hearing led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) about the company's union busting next week.

"Let the headlines read 'McCarthy tries to erase Palestine but fails,'" wrote Rep. Rashida Tlaib.Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks during an event commemorating the 75 anniversary of the Nakba on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C. Rep. Rashida Tlaib via Twitter On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) swooped in to save an event at the Capitol commemorating the 75th anniversary of what Palestinians know as the Nakba, or catastrophe - the time period during which Zionist militants expelled three quarters of Palestinians from their homes to establish the state of Israel - after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) attempted to cancel the event.

The man often touted as the godfather of artificial intelligence will be responding to requests for help from Bernie Sanders, Elon Musk and the White House, he says, just days after quitting Google to warn the world about the risk of digital intelligence.Dr Geoffrey Hinton, 75, won computer science's highest honour, the Turing award, in 2018 for his work on deep learning, along with Meta's Yann Lecun and the University of Montreal's Yoshua Bengio.

On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),Don Beyer (D-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) announced bipartisan legislation that seeks to prevent an artificial intelligence system from making nuclear launch decisions.The Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act would prohibit the use of federal funds for launching any nuclear weapon by an automated system without "meaningful human control."

"Our approach reflects our years of working on this issue, and it's so much broader.It's so much more comprehensive," Collins said in a joint interview with Shaheen, the moderate Mainer's longtime partner on bills ranging from broadband expansion to post-Jan.6 reform.Shaheen observed that "our proposal is better than theirs" before taking a more diplomatic tack: "It's more comprehensive.

The administration rejected a request to lower the price of prostate cancer drug Xtandi this week.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to Stephane Bancel, CEO and director of Moderna, Inc., during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on the price of Covid vaccines, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2023.STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has condemned the Biden administration's decision this week to reject a request to lower the price of an extremely expensive prostate cancer drug that can help extend the lives of patients for months or years.