Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 17 – Vermont’s congressional delegation on Tuesday announced a $1 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to help young Vermonters earn their high school degrees and develop valuable skills. The grant is part of nearly $76 million in funding for YouthBuild programs that provide training to young people throughout the nation. The Vermont funding will go to

WASHINGTON, May 12 – The Department of Defense today committed more than $2.1 million for a one-year extension of a Vermont National Guard outreach program to help veterans returning from deployments in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The Vermont Guard program was funded since 2006 by federal grants secured by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. 

WASHINGTON, May 11 – Non-emergency visits to hospital emergency rooms cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, money that could be saved by expanding community health centers and other primary health care services, according to testimony at a Senate hearing today. A new Government Accountability Office study conservatively estimated that 8 percent of emergency room visits are not urgent. In

Will Release GAO Report on Preventing Unnecessary Use of ERs WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 11 at 10:00AM, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging will convene a hearing to discuss ways to reduce the use of emergency departments for non-urgent health care services. HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Subcommittee Chairman Bernie

WASHINGTON, May 10 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that he introduced legislation to provide health care for every American through a Medicare-for-all type single-payer system.   Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) filed a companion bill in the House to provide better care for more patients at less cost by eliminating the middle-man role played by private insurance companies that