Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday will hold a discussion with older Vermonters to hear about their experiences with the many programs funded through the Older Americans Act (OAA). The discussion will take place at 11:30 a.m. at the Waterbury Area Senior Center. Earlier this month, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and

WASHINGTON, March 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday released the following statement regarding the State Department’s statement that Israel is in compliance with U.S. law, international humanitarian law, and the Biden Administration’s recent National Security Memorandum. The State Department today stated: “We have found them not to be in violation, either when it comes to conduct of the war

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that his office has secured an additional $15.3 million in federal funding on behalf of 13 Vermont projects that address significant needs across the state, including in health care, emergency operations, youth programming, and substance abuse prevention. This funding brings the total amount of Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) secured

WASHINGTON, March 23 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement regarding his NO vote on the appropriations package passed in the Senate last night: I voted NO on the appropriations bill that the Senate passed last night. While hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children face starvation in Gaza, this bill actually prohibits funding to UNRWA, the key United Nations

WASHINGTON, March 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, Pensions (HELP) Committee, this week introduced legislation that would ensure that the United States finally joins virtually every other major country on Earth in guaranteeing workers the right to earn paid annual vacation leave. This legislation comes just a week after Sanders introduced legislation and

WASHINGTON, March 21 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) today reintroduced essential legislation that would take on the affordable housing crisis and the existential threat of climate change. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act invests up to $234 billion over ten years to transition the entire public housing stock in the United States into