#senator sanders

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5133161-donald-trump-gaza-proposal-israel-takeover/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-gaza-redevelopment/

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-is-no-rush-gaza-2025-02-07/

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I asked Bernie Sanders about a Gaza Ceasefire |

Hasan Minhaj

Hasan Minhaj's latestest interview with Bernie Sanders

[originalleftist]

Senator Sanders on aid to Israel.

"this is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis."

"So the issue for us here in America is what do we do? Well, for a start, we must be as loud and clear as we can be that the Netanyahu government will not continue to get the support of the United States of America. Not one nickel more for this horrific and inhumane war. Do Israelis have the right to defend themselves against a terrorist group like Hamas? Yes, they do. But they do not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people and kill large numbers of innocent women and children. Now last week, I and a few of my Senate colleagues forced the very first vote since this war began on holding Israel and Netanyahu accountable. And we did it through a provision in the Foreign Assistance Act called Section 502b. And what that provision did was demand a report from the State Department information us as to exactly what Israel is doing with the large number of weapons that we provide them and whether their military actions are in violation of human rights, international law, and in fact, American law. Now, on that vote, we only received 11 support, 11 supporters, got 11 votes on that resolution. But I can tell you absolutely without equivocation that the tide is turning in our direction."..."And what we did last week, let me be very clear about it, is a start, not an end. We're just beginning to do what has to be done. We are going to continue to work on this issue until we win. And winning means that we make it clear to Netanyahu that this terrible war has got to end, that there needs to be a two state solution in the area."

"Please do everything you can to contact your members of the House and Senate. Let them know that you will not accept the status quo. You will not accept the horrible things that are now taking place in Gaza. U.S. policy on this issue has got to change. We cannot be complicit in the terrible, terrible situation in Gaza where so many innocent people are dying or starving. So there's a lot in front of us. Let's do it. And thank you very much for your efforts."

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Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three of the companies have relented, making commitments to cap costs for their inhalers at $35 for patients who now pay much more.

25 million Americans have asthma and 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), meaning over 40 million Americans rely on inhalers to breathe.

Inhalers have been available since the 1950s, and most of the drugs they use have been on the market for more than 25 years.

According to a statement from the Wisconsin Senator’s office, inhaler manufacturers sell the exact same products at a much lower costs in other countries. One of AstraZeneca’s inhalers, Breztri Aerosphere, costs $645 in the U.S.—but just $49 in the UK. Inhalers made by Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, and Teva have similar disparities.

Baldwin and her Democratic colleagues—New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—pressured the companies to lower their prices by writing letters to GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca requesting a variety of documents that show why such higher prices are charged in America compared to Europe.

As a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Baldwin recently announced that as a result of the letters they had secured commitments from three of the four to lower the out-of-pocket costs of inhalers to a fixed $35.00 rate.

“For the millions of Americans who rely on inhalers to breathe, this news is a major step in the right direction as we work to lower costs and hold big drug companies accountable,” said Senator Baldwin.

A full list of the inhalers and associated drugs can be viewed here.

It’s the second time in the last year that pharmaceutical companies were forced to provide reasonable prices—after the cost of insulin was similarly capped successfully at $35 per month thanks to Congressional actions led by the White House.

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

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From @theimeu:

BREAKING: For the first time in US history there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel.

Sending Israel weapons is a violation of US law and opposed by a majority of Americans, who are sick of seeing their tax dollars fund Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians.

Thank you @sensanders, @senjeffmerkley, and @senpeterwelch for taking this historic step.

The weapons included in this $20 billion proposed transfer have been used in apparent war crimes in Gaza. For a detailed breakdown, swipe left.

[thoughtportal]

This is a crucial bill. Even if the research finds that everything we know about long COVID is wrong, this work has ramifications for Lyme, POTS, ME/CFS, and other postviral diseases, which have long been ignored.

Please write to or call your senators.

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[dont-lick-my-foot]

Senator Bernie Sanders Wins reelection to Senate for Vermont

congrats bestie!!

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[thebreakfastgenie]

Also for what it's worth I've never discouraged the creation of a farther left party in the US either. I believe I've even said in the past that the Green Party is a disaster and if you want to build an alternative party you have to do it from the ground up. I have no illusions about a farther left party gaining any kind of traction at the national level, but local politics is a lot more flexible.

The only viable role for a leftist party in the US right now is a local/state party in deep blue states that would have candidates run as Democrats if they ran for federal office. Democrats will have different opinions on that which is fine, personally I'm chill with that as long as they treat Democrats as respected coalition partners and aren't assholes about it. I think that's kind of what the DSA was supposed to be? It feels like every attempt at this dissolves into an internal mess because *jazz hands* the American left but it doesn't have to be that way.

I'm not going to personally put the effort in to do this, I'm fine voting for Democrats, but if I had a choice between a Democrat and some leftist party for a local office I'd consider both candidates. That's basically what I do now anyway except they're all officially Democrats and I do it in the primaries.

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Bernie Sanders is calling on the U.S. and international community to restore their funding to Palestine’s primary aid agency after more than a dozen countries and the European Union announced that they were suspending funds over the past week.

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