Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 17 – The Senate today voted 74-22 to take up legislation to modernize the U.S. Postal Service. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led a group of more than two dozen senators who pressed to make the bill stronger. “Today’s vote clears the first of many hurdles that we face in our effort to save rural post offices, mail processing plants and the jobs of

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 12 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) welcomed today’s Vermont Senate passage of a resolution calling on Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to undo a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that threw out a ban on corporate campaign spending. “I congratulate the Vermont Senate for this important vote. Citizens United was one of the worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court.

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Gov. Peter Shumlin and the Vermont Department of Public Service today hosted a Vermont Clean Energy Investment Summit. The goal of the conference was to determine how the state could become a model for the nation in moving more aggressively toward energy efficiency and developing sustainable sources of clean energy. “Moving forward aggressive in energy efficiency and

Vermont Clean Energy Investment Summit I want to thank Governor Shumlin and Commissioner Liz Miller for working with my office to make this event possible.  I am very pleased that we are joined by Major General Michael Dubie of the Vermont National Guard.  And I am especially grateful that Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, has come up from Washington to

STOWE, Vt., April 4 – The New England Educational Opportunity Association today awarded Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) the Claiborne Pell Award, its top honor, to recognize his commitment to providing greater educational opportunities for people from low- and middle-income backgrounds. The Claiborne Pell Award was established to recognize “those rare individuals whose pioneering leadership and vision have made an indelible mark on the struggle for equal educational

WASHINGTON, March 28 – U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch today announced the U.S. Economic Development Administration is now accepting applications from Northeastern communities affected by disasters last year, including in Vermont, for $53,753,000 of disaster recovery assistance. On Wednesday the agency posted a Federal Funding Opportunity on grants.gov, the federal government’s central grant application clearinghouse. It calls for applications from