Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 24 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement Friday after House Republican leaders pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor: “The defeat of the disastrous Trump-Ryan health care bill is a major victory for the working families of this country and for the hundreds of thousands who attended

WASHINGTON, March 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday on the nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court: “Americans deserve a Supreme Court justice who respects the rights of workers to be treated fairly instead of bowing to big business. We cannot stand

WASHINGTON, March 22 – At a rally Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for the defeat of the Wall Street lawyer whom President Donald Trump wants to regulate Wall Street. “We need somebody who is prepared to confront the system, not someone who is part of the system,” Sanders said of former Goldman Sachs counsel Jay

WASHINGTON, March 22 –  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, requested information Wednesday from PTC Therapeutics, Inc. about the price they intend to charge for the brand name version of deflazacourt, a drug used to treat a deadly genetic muscle deterioration disorder. PTC recently purchased

March 20, 2017– “We have expressed our serious concerns to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about these arrests of several farmworkers and farmworker advocates.  We are also reaching out to ICE about the potential impact in Vermont of President Trump’s executive order calling for increased immigration enforcement.  Instead of focusing on removing those people who pose a threat to public

BRATTLEBORO, VT., March 16 – Budget analysts for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, identified some of the ways the budget blueprint released Thursday by President Donald Trump would hurt Vermont. Trump’s plan would: Eliminate the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program which provides heating assistance to some 21,000 Vermont families. Make college more