Press Releases

WASHINGTON, March 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Tuesday sent a letter to incoming Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz ahead of his announced return to the company, highlighting some of the egregious anti-union efforts the company has undertaken to fight employees who are building a movement to unionize Starbucks locations around the country. “If Starbucks can afford to spend $20 billion

WASHINGTON, March 21 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), on Monday wrote to Kevin Miller, CEO of the Sciolex Corporation, to express concern over the treatment of Sciolex workers at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Vermont Service Center (VSC). Formerly based in St. Albans, the VSC, now located in

WASHINGTON, March 15 – An amendment – introduced today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to provide over $177 million in mandatory funding for the Nurse Corps program for Fiscal Year 2023, which would double the amount of funding it is receiving from this year – was successfully added to the bipartisan

WASHINGTON, March 15 – An amendment – introduced today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to provide over $177 million in mandatory funding for the Nurse Corps program for Fiscal Year 2023, which would double the amount of funding it is receiving from this year – was successfully added to the bipartisan

WASHINGTON, March 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday, along with Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), sent a letter urging the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to forgo any actions that would limit veterans’ ability to get their VA care at VA facilities in New Hampshire or Vermont. The letter follows the

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday announced the winners of his twelfth annual State of the Union Essay Contest, which gives Vermont high school students an opportunity to take on a major issue facing the country and propose what they would do to solve it. This year, 409 students from 38 Vermont high schools submitted