3 days ago · The Sanders-Hawley bill would immediately cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. The legislation would be in effect for five years. This bipartisan bill comes after a recent Forbes report found that the average credit card interest rate is 28.6%, even though banks are able to borrow money from the Federal Reserve at less than 4.5%.

2 days ago · At a time when Americans have amassed over $1 trillion in credit-card debt and delinquency rates are high, a new bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri would ...

1 day ago · At a time when Americans have amassed over $1 trillion in credit-card debt and delinquency rates are high, a new bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri would ...

2 days ago · A bipartisan bill from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley aims to codify a campaign promise made by President Donald Trump to cap credit card rates to 10%.

3 days ago · The bill has bipartisan support from unusual bedfellows: U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “When large financial institutions charge over 25% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of making credit available,” Sanders said in a statement. “They are engaged in extortion and loan sharking.

Sep 21, 2023 · U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bernie Sanders celebrated on Thursday after the panel advanced his Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act, teeing up a possible full-chamber vote on the bill.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, announced Thursday that they have reached a deal on landmark legislation to address the ...

WASHINGTON, July 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday issued the following statement after he introduced major legislation to overhaul the primary health care system in America:

Sep 14, 2023 · After weeks of negotiations, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas announced Thursday that they have reached an agreement on a bill to confront the United States' primary care crisis, which has left millions of people across the nation without access to critical healthcare.

A new bipartisan bill introduced by a pair of senators would cap credit card interest rates in an effort to help consumers and fulfill one of President Donald Trump's campaign promises. Sens. Josh ...