Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement on a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal deficit is expected to total $642 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30: “It is very good news for our country that we are making progress on deficit reduction. President Obama

WASHINGTON, May 13 – A Vermont National Guard outreach effort will receive $1.8 million this year for the pioneering program that informs veterans and their families about benefits they have earned, Vermont’s congressional delegation announced today. The award is Vermont’s share of $20 million for eight states that have adopted the Vermont outreach program model and a new effort to

WASHINGTON, May 8 – Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today announced that six Vermont organizations won a share of $1.8 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help assess, clean up and reuse polluted industrial sites. The brownfields cleanup program has helped dozens of Vermont communities turn old contaminated industrial sites

WASHINGTON, May 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hosted a summit meeting today on Capitol Hill with seniors, veterans and other grassroots groups united to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans from budget cuts proposed by congressional Republicans and some Democrats. The event drew hundreds of opponents of a proposal by President Barack Obama to cut cost-of-living adjustments for

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 1  – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement after President Barack Obama nominated telecommunications industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission: “The appointment of a chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a matter of enormous consequence. Before the Senate votes on Mr. Wheeler’s confirmation, the American people deserve to know

WASHINGTON, April 26 – Citing growing needs and rising costs for the nation’s rapidly expanding population of seniors, a group of two dozen senators on Friday called for a significant funding increase for Older Americans Act programs like Meals on Wheels. “There are few better investments than the cost-effective programs that millions of older adults depend on for a healthy