Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) Thursday announced the Burlington International Airport (BTV) will receive $2,637,844 in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to improve the efficiency and safety of operations. The grants were awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and will be used to extend two existing taxiways, the

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke today on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at a rally hosted by leading civil rights organizations. With the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial as a backdrop, Sanders called for restoring Voting Rights Act protections stripped away by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling. The senator also announced the introduction

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt)today introduced the Equal Employment for All Act with Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to adopt a rule requiring companies to disclose how much more chief executives are paid than workers: “The decision to require companies to disclose how much more CEOs are paid than workers is an important step in the fight against income

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) Wednesday announced $291,965 in Land and Water Conservation Fund grants to six communities across Vermont.  The grants are awarded by the National Park Service and will be used to restore and grow parks and build community playgrounds. In a joint statement, Leahy, Sanders

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 – In a Senate floor speech today, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he will introduce legislation to provide public funding of elections to replace a “corrupt” system of “legalized bribery’ with candidates “begging for contributions from the wealthy and the powerful.” “We are talking about a rapid movement in this country toward oligarchy, toward a government owned and