Press Releases

Calls for Surtax on Millionaires, Ending Breaks for Big Oil   BURLINGON, Vt., March 6 – As the U.S. Senate heads for votes this week on competing spending plans for the rest of the year, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Congress also must raise additional revenue to reduce deficits.  He proposed a surtax on millionaires and eliminating tax breaks for Big Oil.

WASHINGTON, March 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that Congress must not balance the budget by cutting programs for working families after giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. “At a time when the gap between the rich and everyone else is wider than it has been in decades, it would be wrong to balance the budget on

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 – The Vermont congressional delegation today urged the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure a swift cleanup at Vermont Yankee after the license to run the nuclear power plant runs out. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) signed a letter that was drafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sanders sits on the Senate panel that oversees the NRC, which regulates

Vermont Delegation and Gov. Shumlin Hail Obama Endorsement of State Health Reform Waiver Legislation WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 – The Vermont congressional delegation and Gov. Peter Shumlin today hailed President Obama’s endorsement of legislation allowing states to provide better health care at a lower cost starting in 2014. At a meeting of the National Governors Association Monday morning, Obama announced his support for amending the Affordable

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today on negotiations to keep the government running past March 4: “At a time when this nation already has the most unequal distribution of income at any time since 1928, and after Republicans just passed huge tax breaks for millionaires and