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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing Thursday on a bill he introduced to reduce the standard U.S. workweek to four days without loss of pay.. The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work ...
On Feb. 13, Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) ... Under terms of the bill, anyone who is a current Social Security recipient, or who will turn 62 in 2023, would receive an extra $200 in each ...
The bill, which sets Pentagon policy for the year, passed the House 281 to 140 last week. ... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted against the bill after railing against its price tag, lamenting last ...
The Build Back Better Act was a bill introduced in the 117th Congress to fulfill aspects of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Plan.It was spun off from the American Jobs Plan, alongside the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as a $3.5 trillion Democratic reconciliation package that included provisions related to climate change and social policy.
A 2019 analysis was critical of Sanders' bill for allowing accountable care organizations and failing to include a provision to negotiate budgets with hospitals. [ 23 ] According to a 2020 study in The Lancet , the Medicare for All Act was estimated to save 13% in national health-care expenditure (equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually ...
The House passed the new bill on December 11, 2009 on a vote of 223-202. The vote was mostly along party lines, with no Republicans voting for the bill. [ 21 ] Paul, objecting to some of the provisions of the combined bill, voted against passage despite the inclusion of the audit provisions he had been proposing for years.
Among them are Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley, (D-Ore.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), with the latter saying Wednesday the bloated bill is ...
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination ...