Press Releases

Sanders, Welch Introduce Bill to Give States Greater Control Over Reactor Shutdown Plans

September 17, 2020

WASHINGTON – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Act of 2020 today, which gives states a meaningful role in the development and approval of reactor shutdown plans and post-shutdown license transfers. The legislation is co-led in the Senate by Sen. Duckworth (D-Ill.), Sen. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sen. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and cosponsored by

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Sanders, Schumer Call for Special Committee to Ensure Election Security

September 16, 2020

WASHINGTON — In response to the disturbing rise in attacks on the fundamental security and legitimacy of our elections, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) requesting the formation of a special bipartisan committee to hear testimony from state and local officials, election experts, and others

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Sanders, Larson Call for Strengthening Social Security After GAO Study Examines Disability Wait Times

August 13, 2020

WASHINGTON, August 13 – Today, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-Conn.) responded to new findings from a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study they commissioned which found that thousands of American die or go bankrupt waiting to receive their disability benefits each year. “It is absolutely unconscionable that thousands of

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Sanders, Colleagues Introduce Tax on Billionaire Wealth Gains to Provide Health Care for All

August 6, 2020

WASHINGTON, August 6 – Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a 60-percent tax on the windfall wealth increases of billionaires during this pandemic in order to pay for all out-of-pocket medical expenses for every person in America for a year. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) introduced companion legislation in the House. The Make Billionaires Pay

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Sanders Speech: Do-Nothing Republicans Abandon Working Class in Pandemic

August 5, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lambasted the Republican legislative “response” to the coronavirus crisis, and denounced the shameful inaction of the Republican-controlled Senate. “What everybody should understand is that over two and a half months ago, the House did its job and responded to the enormous pain and suffering of the

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Sen. Sanders Announces $3 Million in Federal Funds for Affordable Housing in Vermont

August 5, 2020

BURLINGTON, August 5 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Wednesday that Vermont will receive $3 million from the National Housing Trust Fund to build, preserve and rehabilitate affordable rental housing for extremely low-income families. This is the fifth year in a row that Vermont will receive a $3 million allocation from the trust fund, which Sanders helped create. Sanders

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