Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 10 – Speaking at a news conference today outside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) announced legislation to end billions of dollars in oil, coal and gas subsidies. “The American people are asking how can it be that at a time when so many in Congress are calling for savage cuts to

WASHINGTON, May 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Postal Service reported quarterly losses:  “Understated in the Postal Service’s financial report of today is one simple fact: Ninety-four percent of the Postal Service’s losses this year are a direct result of an onerous payment, unprecedented in either government agencies or private corporations, to

WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after President Obama announced that he supports same-sex marriage: “I applaud the president’s historic announcement and his commitment to equal rights for all Americans.  I am proud to represent the first state in the country to allow civil unions and the first state where the Legislature allowed

WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s decision to abandon plans to close 3,600 rural post offices, including 15 in Vermont, but voiced reservations about a new plan to cut hours of operation. Sanders called on the House to pass a Postal Service reform bill that a bipartisan majority of senators approved on

WASHINGTON, May 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on Sunday’s elections in France and elsewhere in Europe where voters rejected austerity measures unfairly shouldered by working families:  “In the United States and around the world, the middle class is in steep decline while the wealthy and large corporations are doing phenomenally well. The message sent

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 1 – Vermont’s first community health center facility in Addison County will be built and an Essex County site will be refurbished with $2.2 million in new Affordable Care Act grants that the Vermont congressional delegation announced today. The Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region, based in Bomoseen, Vt., was awarded $1.3 million to construct an