Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and five of his Senate colleagues urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a letter to address the detention of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia. At least three women’s rights activists and three men associated with the women’s rights movement are currently detained, and four other women’s rights activists have

WASHINGTON, June 21 – In a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) following his call for the Trump administration to uphold international human rights treaty obligations and present Congress with a plan to alleviate poverty, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed a non-partisan U.N. report on extreme poverty in America as “politically motivated” and “misleading.” “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations

WASHINGTON, June 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing his administration’s policy of separating families at the southern border: “President Trump’s executive order merely replaces one inhumane act with another. In response to the overwhelming public outrage at his administration’s policy of tearing children away from their parents

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced Monday that Vermont is set to receive $4 million through the State Opioid Response Grants program to help fight Vermont’s opioid epidemic.   In 2017, Vermont saw opioid-related deaths increase by 5 percent to a total of 101.  Furthermore, fentanyl deaths spiked by

WASHINGTON – Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis today asking for details on the United States’ involvement in the Saudi’s war in Yemen, and to do so before U.S. involvement in those hostilities intensifies. The letter expresses concern that Congress’s attempt to play their proper Constitutional oversight role may be

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 14 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement about Thursday’s deployment by the Vermont National Guard. “I wish all the best to the men and women of Charlie Company as they begin their deployment today. As an air ambulance unit, they have the critical mission of putting their own lives on the line to