Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 26 – After Rutland city officials announced today they would host up to 100 refugees from Syria and Iraq, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch released the following statement:  “We are proud that the State of Vermont and the City of Rutland are welcoming civilian refugees who have fled the relentless violence in Syria, sometimes

WASHINGTON, April 22 – As tests for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contaminating drinking water in North Bennington, Bennington and Pownal continue this week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) pressed two congressional committees, charged with finalizing legislation to regulate toxic chemicals, for stricter federal rules and deference to strong state protections already in place in Vermont

NEW YORK – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement Sunday supporting legislation that would let families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks sue Saudi Arabia if the government is linked to the attacks. “I support legislation by Sen. Chuck Schumer that would allow Americans, including the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, to use U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders was an original cosponsor of the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2016 introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren today.  The bill would simplify and decrease the costs of the tax filing process for millions of American taxpayers. This year, taxpayers will spend an average of 13 hours preparing and filing their returns, and will pay

WASHINGTON, April 13 – Large, profitable American corporations paid just 14 percent of their profits in federal income taxes on average from 2008 through 2012 and about one-fifth of them paid nothing at all each year, according to a new study prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders by the Government Accountability Office. “There is something profoundly wrong in America when one

WASHINGTON, April 7 – The Senate today unanimously approved and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to support and expand social and nutrition services for seniors. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leader in the effort to reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act, applauded the bill’s passage. “A nation is judged by how it cares for its most vulnerable,” Sanders