Press Releases

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

AUSTIN, Texas, April 1 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today denounced measures in Indiana and Arkansas that could allow discrimination against gay couples. “It is important that the American people stand together and end bigotry once and for all. We have fought to end discrimination based on race, creed and color. Now is the time, once and for all,

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 – Speaking last night at the Commonwealth Club of California, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said it is time to break up “too-big-to-fail” Wall Street banks that have grown larger and more powerful since taxpayers bailed them out after the 2008 financial collapse. “No single financial institution should have holdings so extensive that its failure could