Press Releases

WASHINGTON, September 8 – A groundbreaking Government Accountability Office (GAO) study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), released today, provides a comprehensive picture of income, wealth, life expectancy, and retirement security among older Americans. GAO found not only that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer, but provided evidence that led Sanders to conclude that poverty is, in

WASHINGTON, September 4 – Next week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold a public meeting in Brattleboro to discuss best practices for community and citizen advisory boards, like Vermont’s Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens’ Advisory Panel, associated with nuclear plant decommissioning activities. The meeting, one of ten planned around the country in communities affected by nuclear decommissioning, will also serve as

Washington, September 3 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) led a bipartisan group of 44 lawmakers urging Congress to defund unauthorized U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen in the upcoming bill to authorize Pentagon spending. The U.S.-Saudi military campaign in Yemen has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, leaving 24 million Yemenis—80

WASHINGTON, August 14 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent letters to Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Mylan N.V., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., opening an investigation into the companies’ apparent coordinated obstruction of a 2014 inquiry into the way their companies raised prices on lifesaving generic drugs. “Not only did

WASHINGTON, August 8 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) led a group of 19 Senators and 120 U.S. Representatives demanding that the Department of Agriculture withdraw its “disastrous rule” that would kick over 3 million people off of food assistance. The Trump Administration’s proposed rule would end the streamlined eligibility option for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

WASHINGTON, July 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) applauded the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s passage of a five-year, $287-billion transportation funding bill that includes more than $1.3 billion for Vermont to maintain its roads, bridges and transit systems.  “It is no secret that our infrastructure is crumbling,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who helped draft the bill as a member