Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 – Leaders of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Special Committee on Aging said today that they are “deeply troubled” by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ lax oversight of private advisers to veterans applying for pensions and other benefits. The senators cited a new report by the Government Accountability Office that faulted the VA for

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed Entergy Corp.’s decision to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. “I am delighted that Entergy will shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant which has had so many problems in recent years. There is a strong desire on the part of the people of the state of Vermont to

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug 23 – With the second anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene approaching, Vermont’s congressional delegation today recalled heroic relief measures in the flooding’s immediate aftermath and a remarkable  rebuilding effort undertaken in the two years since one of the worst natural disasters in Vermont history. The Aug. 28, 2011, torrential storm killed six people in Vermont, forced thousands

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 19 – U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed a finding by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the state-run Vermont Veterans Home passed an inspection and is no longer in danger of losing Medicare and Medicaid funding. “I am very pleased that CMS found the Vermont Veterans’ Home ‘in

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 12 – With revenue rebounding, the U.S. Postal Service would have posted a profit for the past three months without an unprecedented requirement that it sink $5.5 billion a year into future retiree health care, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today.  The latest quarterly report on Postal Service finances showed a $740 million loss, but all of

BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said legislation that President Barack Obama signed today will let college borrowing costs balloon. “This legislation is going to make an already bad situation of student indebtedness even worse,” said Sanders, a member of the Senate education committee. He said he will fight to make college more affordable when the committee