Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Sen. Mazie K. Hirono and a coalition of senators Wednesday to urge the Justice Department to investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute individual wrongdoing at Wells Fargo after revelations that the bank’s employees had opened millions of accounts without customer approval. In September, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its largest penalty

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Tuesday he would introduce legislation in the next session of Congress to fix our rigged tax system and close loopholes Donald Trump used to possibly avoid paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades. “Special tax breaks and loopholes in a corrupt tax code enable billionaires and powerful corporations to avoid paying their

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told the Obama Administration on Thursday that a 12-nation trade deal should not be considered by Congress until it is renegotiated. In a letter to the president, Sanders and his colleagues outlined the Trans Pacific Partnership’s fundamental flaws and the need to fix them before Congress votes on the agreement, which

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 – Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after the U.S. Department of State confirmed on Wednesday it had approved a plan to bring up to 100 refugees from war-torn Syria and Iraq to the city of Rutland: “We learned this morning that the city of Rutland

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) today sent a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil requesting that DOL investigate whether Wells Fargo violated the Fair Labor Standards

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joined forces Wednesday to oppose legislation that would slow the approval of priority medications and do nothing to lower prescription drug prices. Republicans accepted a counter-proposal from Sanders and Warren that would only extend the voucher program through the end of the year to allow time to come