Press Releases

LIHEAP Protection Act would provide $4.7 billion to help vulnerable Americans with energy bills WASHINGTON, DC – With energy costs rising and winter approaching, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI), Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are keeping the heat on Congress to restore funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).  LIHEAP is the main federal program

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 – On World Aids Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Congress to pass his legislation to dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs used to treat the disease. Sanders cited the example of ATRIPLA, a three-drug regime that costs less than $200 to make but is sold in the United States for $24,000 a year. “If a treatment that is literally a

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 – Vermont will receive more than $18 million to help the state implement a new national health care reform law, the state’s congressional delegation announced today. The federal funds will help the state devise an insurance exchange to make it simpler for consumers to select affordable health insurance policies. Under the national health care law, insurance exchanges must be established in every state to

BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 22 – The U.S. Department of Transportation will release $15 million in emergency funds to help Vermont rebuild and repair roads and bridges destroyed or damaged by floods, Vermont’s congressional delegation announced today. The Federal Highway Administration emergency grant includes $14 million for repairing damage caused last August by Tropical Storm Irene, according to Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter

BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 21 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the congressional deficit committee announced that it was unable to reach agreement: “With a $15 trillion national debt, deficit reduction is clearly a huge issue for the country.  I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the super committee was unable to reach agreement. “The American people have made it very

Senator Patrick Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Congressman Peter Welch (D) announced Monday that the Northwest Regional Planning Commission and the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission will receive economic development planning grants totaling more than a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  The two grants are among only a few dozen regional planning projects approved by HUD nationwide.