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WASHINGTON – Democrats on Capitol Hill are ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden to make Medicare expansion and prescription drug measures part of his upcoming American Families Plan proposal as the White House signals it won t include major health care policy reforms.
In a letter to Biden on Sunday, 17 senators led by Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, I- Vt., who caucuses with Democrats, pushed for Medicare expansion to be part of the American Families Plan, the second piece of Biden s Build Back Better agenda that he plans to roll out in a speech Wednesday to Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week called for Biden s plan to include measures to lower health care costs and prescription drug prices as House Democrats revived a drug price negotiation bill.
Democrats pressure Biden to include Medicare expansion, prescription drugs in his American Families Plan Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – Democrats on Capitol Hill are ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden to make Medicare expansion and prescription drug measures part of his upcoming American Families Plan proposal as the White House signals it won t include major health care policy reforms.
In a letter to Biden on Sunday, 17 senators led by Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, I- Vt., who caucuses with Democrats, pushed for Medicare expansion to be part of the American Families Plan, the second piece of Biden s Build Back Better agenda that he plans to roll out in a speech Wednesday to Congress.
Bernie Sanders Invites Oil Executives to Testify at Hearing on Climate Crisis
Sen. Bernie Sanders exits the stage after speaking during The Iowa Democratic Party Liberty & Justice Celebration on November 1, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called on top oil and gas executives to testify at a hearing on “The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change” before the budget committee next Thursday.
The senator invited BP America President David C. Lawler, Chevron CEO Michael Wirth and ExxonMobil CEO Darren W. Woods to testify. Sanders told
CBS that Lawler has already denied the request sent on Tuesday. “These guys don’t want to answer hard questions,” Sanders said. BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil are some of the biggest carbon emitters in the world.
Senate Democrats decided Sunday to abandon an alternative proposal to penalize companies for not providing a $15 minimum wage to their employees, the latest indication that boosting the federal minimum wage in this Congress remains an extremely tall order, according to a person involved in the talks.