Press Releases

WASHINGTON, March 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will receive a Shorty Award as the “best member of Congress on social media” for his use of Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Sanders is one of the most popular members of Congress on Facebook  and Twitter. More than 109,000 people like him Facebook and 93,000 follow him on Twitter. More than half a million people

MONTPELIER, Vt., March 10 – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) focused attention on the crisis in dental care in the United States during a town meeting today at Montpelier High School attended by more than 200 people. “As a nation, we don’t talk about it much, but there is a dental crisis in America,” said Sanders, chairman of the Senate

WASHINGTON, March 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed results from town meetings today across Vermont where citizens called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United and restore limits on corporate campaign spending. As of Tuesday evening, voters in 23 towns had passed resolutions to amend the Constitution to ensure that corporations do not have the same First Amendment

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 5 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 69 other members of Congress said federal regulators should curb speculation in crude oil markets which has artificially pushed up gasoline prices to nearly $4 a gallon. The lawmakers – 23 senators and 47 members of the House – said in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 5 – U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Vermont $3.4 million in funding to help support Head Start programs in Barre and Burlington. The Central Vermont Community Action Council in Barre was awarded $1.8 million. Another  $1.5 million

WASHINGTON, March 1 – Coming off a year of record-setting $1 billion-plus natural disasters, representatives of leading insurance companies said today that costs to taxpayers and businesses from extreme weather will continue to soar because of climate change. The insurers joined Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) at a press conference to discuss the mounting financial impact of global warming. Both Vermont and Rhode Island