Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 6 – More than $3.2 million was awarded to Vermont today by the U.S. Department of Transportation to repair highways damaged by severe storms this spring and summer, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced. The funding from the Federal Highway Administration to the Vermont Agency of Transportation is in

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders today issued the following statement on a Postal Service reform bill introduced late Thursday in the Senate that could end Saturday and door-to-door mail delivery and close mail processing plants: “While I have a great deal of respect for Sens. Carper and Coburn, the Postal Service bill that they introduced is significantly weaker than

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today congratulated thousands of fast-food workers who have staged one-day strikes to demand higher wages. “I rise today to congratulate hundreds and hundreds of young people throughout the country who are standing up for justice, who are putting a spotlight on one of the major economic crises facing this country,” Sanders said

WASHINGTON, July 31 – The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today held a hearing on financial protections for men and women serving in the military. Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) faulted financial institutions for what he called “completely unacceptable” violations of a law which protects service members when military service hampers their ability to meet financial obligations they took on as

WASHINGTON, July 31 – On the 48th anniversary of congressional passage of the law that created Medicare, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today joined a coalition advocating a Medicare-for-all health care system to provide better care at less cost for more Americans. Sanders spoke at a news conference on Capitol Hill with Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and

WASHINGTON, July 30 – Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today joined the Department of Veterans Affairs at an exhibit of cutting-edge medical technology that is improving treatment and expanding access to care for million veterans throughout the country. Dr. Robert Petzel, VA’s undersecretary for health, said VA medical centers are in the forefront of what he