Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Senate Democrats on Thursday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan urging the Republican leaders to immediately call Congress back into session to pass emergency legislation to address the growing Zika crisis. “The problems the American people confront do not disappear simply because

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 15 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced today that the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act passed the Senate on Thursday. The legislation provides a much-needed update to federal rental assistance programs, and builds upon the first ever funding of the National Housing Trust Fund earlier this year.  “Our country faces a very real housing crisis, especially for

Thursday, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter calling on federal agencies to take action to protect students and veterans from potentially fraudulent institutions like Trump University. The senators’ letter requests

WASHINGTON, July 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday issued the following statement after voting in favor of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act to addresses the nationwide opioid epidemic: “We must make it easier for people to get the substance abuse treatment they need when they need it. It is wrong that people in crisis in my home

WASHINGTON, July 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday strongly opposed legislation that preempts Vermont’s first-in-the-nation law requiring products made with genetically modified ingredients to be labeled. “The legislation that passed is an outrage and speaks to the power of big money in American politics,” Sanders said. “The Grocery Manufacturers Association, Monsanto and other agribusiness spent hundreds of millions

WASHINGTON, July 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday submitted formal comments to the Department of the Treasury on regulations issued to prevent corporate tax avoidance. The Treasury Department regulations, which were issued on April 4, effectively enforce the existing law that is meant to prevent corporate inversions and a tax dodge known as “earnings stripping,” which allows corporations