Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and 10 of their colleagues today sent a letter urging the Obama administration not to approve oil drilling off the coast of Alaska. “At a time when our planet is warming due to climate change, the last thing our environment needs is more drilling,” Sanders said.  “What we

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he will resign at the end of October: “It appears that even a very conservative speaker like John Boehner is unable to control the extreme right-wing drift of Republicans in the House. This is a party whose ideology is way out

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and 10 of their colleagues introduced legislation today to repeal a tax on certain health plans. Sanders opposed the provision when it was included in the Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010. “What was true then is true now,” Sanders said. “Imposing an excise tax on

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24  – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after voting against a bill to cut funding for Planned Parenthood: “Republicans are once again taking us to the edge of a government shutdown, demanding we take away health care from the American people. Defunding Planned Parenthood would deny hundreds of thousands of Americans access to services

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress: “Pope Francis is clearly one of the important religious and moral leaders not only in the world today but in modern history. He forces us to address some of the major issues facing humanity: war, income and wealth inequality,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 – During a speech on the floor of the Senate today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed Pope Francis to the United States and asked his colleagues in Congress to act on the pope’s call to care for the most vulnerable in our society. “From the moment he was elected, he immediately let it be known that he