Bernie Sanders thanks Kamala Harris for endorsing single-payer

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131. There is no Senate bill at the moment and no actual proposal has been made public.

The only single payer/medicare for all bill introduced so far in the 115th Congress is John Conyers' HR 676.

Democratic Congressman Conyers first introduced his Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act in 2003 and has re-introduced it in every Congressional session since, including in 2017. It has always enjoyed strong Democratic support in the House. It currently has 117 co-sponsors.

WA Congressman Jim McDermott is not currently one of the co-sponsors of HR 676 which may be an indication that he is going to re-introduce what was HR 1200 in the 113th Congress. Both a House and Senate version of the bill were introduced, but there were no co-sponsors for either measure. (Conyers' bill had 63 co-sponsors during that session of Congress.)

As a point of fact, neither the House nor Senate versions of the McDermott bill have had a single co-sponsor the last three times the measures were introduced. House members seem to have had a consistent and strong preference (as evidenced by strong and enthusiastic co-sponsorship) for the Conyers bill for the past 14 years.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1200

Senate bills S 703, S 915, and S 1782 are all identical senate versions of McDermott's HR 1200 introduced during different sessions of Congress.

http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676_and_S915

http://www.md.pnhp.org/docs/Comparison-HR676-and-S703.pdf