Press Releases

NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement Sunday supporting legislation that would let families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks sue Saudi Arabia if the government is linked to the attacks. “I support legislation by Sen. Chuck Schumer that would allow Americans, including the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, to use U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders was an original cosponsor of the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2016 introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren today.  The bill would simplify and decrease the costs of the tax filing process for millions of American taxpayers. This year, taxpayers will spend an average of 13 hours preparing and filing their returns, and will pay

WASHINGTON, April 13 – Large, profitable American corporations paid just 14 percent of their profits in federal income taxes on average from 2008 through 2012 and about one-fifth of them paid nothing at all each year, according to a new study prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders by the Government Accountability Office. “There is something profoundly wrong in America when one

WASHINGTON, April 7 – The Senate today unanimously approved and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to support and expand social and nutrition services for seniors. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leader in the effort to reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act, applauded the bill’s passage. “A nation is judged by how it cares for its most vulnerable,” Sanders

WASHINGTON, April 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement after the Department of the Treasury issued new rules that would curb the tax dodging practice known as corporate inversions: “I am pleased that the Treasury has announced new rules to block profitable American companies from gaming the system to dodge U.S. taxes. While the full impact is still