Press Releases

WASHINGTON, June 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement in response to today’s report from the Congressional Budget Office estimating that the control board established under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act would cost $370 million and that Puerto Rican taxpayers would be forced to pick up the tab: “The more we learn about the disastrous

WASHINGTON, June 2 – Costs from hurricane damages in the United States are expected to increase 39 percent in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development, according to a new report prepared by the Congressional Budget Office for Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray. The 2016 hurricane season began Wednesday. By 2075, annual expected

Washington, May 26 – In a letter sent to Attorney General Loretta Lynch today, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) slammed a GOP effort to cut off any federal investigation into possible fossil fuel industry fraud.  Recalling the successful Department of Justice lawsuit against the tobacco industry during the Clinton and Bush administrations,

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 24 – Vermont’s congressional delegation – Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch — announced today that firefighters throughout Vermont will receive $679,285 through three federal grants. The three grants include $500,000 for a firefighting training simulator at Vermont Firefighting Academy in Pittsford; $142,858 for breathing apparatus for 20 firefighters in Bellows Falls; and $36,427 for

WASHINGTON, 23 de mayo – El Senador Bernie Sanders urgió a sus colegas demócratas del Senado a que rechacen un proyecto de ley presentado la semana pasada en la Cámara de Representantes que establecería una junta de control para monitorear la crisis financiera de Puerto Rico. “Tenemos que tomar una decisión importante,” Sanders escribió en una carta a los demócratas

WASHINGTON, May 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders called on his Democratic colleagues in the Senate to oppose legislation introduced in the House of Representatives last week that would establish a control board to oversee Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. “We have an important choice to make,” Sanders wrote in a letter to Senate Democrats, “do we stand with the working people