Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 13 – In a speech tonight at American University, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will call for overhauling how college education is financed by allowing students to refinance loans, eliminating federal profits on loans, making 4-year public colleges tuition-free, expanding work-study programs and providing incentives for colleges and universities to keep costs down. The senator also will call for

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 13 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he’s going outside the Capitol to hear from working-class Americans about how severe Republican budget cuts would affect their families, parents and health care. Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said he wants to provide a forum outside the rigid structure of Congress as part of

BURLINGTON, Vt. April 11 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro held the first formal meeting of the two country’s leaders in a half century: “Fifty years of Cold War is enough.  I applaud President Obama for turning the page on U.S-Cuba relations, for meeting with Raul Castro

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Senate Budget Committee ranking member, today issued the following statement on new data showing the extent to which some American companies are avoiding taxes: “I applaud Citizens for Tax Justice for releasing new data today revealing the unfairness of our tax system and the fact that a number of the biggest

DALLAS, April 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the United States, Iran, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany have negotiated an agreement regarding Iran’s disputed nuclear program. ”While much more work remains to be done this framework is an important step forward. It is imperative that Iran not

DALLAS, April 2 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement in response to fast-food chain McDonald’s decision to raise wages for some of their employees: “All over this country McDonald’s is paying its workers abysmally low wages. While a 10 percent increase is a step in the right direction, it goes nowhere far enough. I would hope