Press Releases

WASHINGTON, July 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed an agreement that clears the way for long-stalled confirmation votes on several of President Barack Obama’s nominees but he warned that more must be done to end gridlock in “a seriously dysfunctional Senate.” “I am pleased that an agreement has been reached in which President Obama finally will get Senate

WASHINGTON, July 10 – Skeptical of a bid to overhaul the tax code by corporate-friendly congressional tax writers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today laid out specific proposals to raise revenue by closing loopholes that let multi-national corporations and oil companies avoid hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes.  Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairmen of the

WASHINGTON, July 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after a filibuster by Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a bill to restore student loan interest rates that doubled on July 1: “I have heard from more than 700 Vermonters and people around the country that college costs too much and interest rates on student loans are too

WASHINGTON, July 9 – Responding to more than 700 emails from college students and graduates in Vermont and around the nation, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called today for restoring student the loan interest rate to the level that was charged before the rate doubled on July 1 to 6.8 percent. “We have a major crisis in our country today in

BURLINGTON, July 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after a report from Congress’ Government Accountability Office revealed that profitable U.S. companies paid just 12.6 percent of their reported worldwide profits in federal income taxes in 2010, well below the 35 percent federal corporate income tax rate: “At a time when corporate America and their allies in Congress

BURLINGTON, July 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that Congress must act immediately to pass legislation which retroactively restores the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans back to 3.4 percent.  As a result of Congressional inaction, interest rates on these loans doubled to 6.8 percent today.  On June 6, Sanders voted with a majority of senators to