Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced that she will not seek re-election in 2016: “Sen. Boxer is one of the great senators of our time and I am sorry that this will be her last session in Congress. She has played an especially vital role in protecting

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 – As a Senate panel today took up a proposal to build a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that drilling more of the dirtiest oil on the planet would fuel global warming. “The Keystone XL pipeline is not going to be forgotten by our children and our grandchildren

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed President Barack Obama’s announcement today that the Federal Housing Administration will cut mortgage-insurance premiums as part of an effort to expand opportunities for first-time homebuyers. Annual fees the agency charges to guarantee mortgages will be cut by 0.5 percentage points from the current rate of 1.35 percent. Sanders and 17 other

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today challenged the trade representative for the United States to follow the example of the European Union and stop hiding details of a proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. “It is time for American trade negotiators to stop operating in the shadows and come clean with details of an agreement that would

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today blasted a proposed new House rule that would make the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation use a discredited notion that today’s Republicans call “dynamic scoring” but President George H.W. Bush labeled “voodoo economics.”  “The Republicans have hatched a plan to

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate energy and environment committees, issued the following statement welcoming the announcement by the White House today that President Barack Obama would veto legislation allowing construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas:    “I applaud the president for standing up to Republicans trying to