Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 – Saying U.S. trade policy has been “a disaster” for American workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he will vote against proposed trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. Sanders said that the agreements are a continuation of trade pacts like the North America Free Trade Agreement and normalized trade with China which resulted in the loss of millions of jobs

Mr. President, I rise in strong opposition to the free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Let’s be clear: one of the major reasons that the middle class in America is disappearing, poverty is increasing and the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider is due to our disastrous unfettered free trade policy. If the United States is to

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 – As the Senate prepared to take up President Barack Obama’s jobs package, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a Senate floor speech today that it’s time to put Americans back to work. With real unemployment at more than 16 percent, Sanders called for the creation of millions of jobs by investing in much-need road and bridge repairs and other construction projects to

WASHINGTON, October 5 – Vermont’s congressional delegation – Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch – and Gov. Peter Shumlin today announced that over $200,000 in Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) funds will go to support two economic development projects in Lyndon and Brighton. Lyndon State College and the Northeastern Vermont Development Association will receive $128,500 to boost manufacturing in the area. The

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders today blasted the American Hospital Association for lobbying Congress to cut Medicare benefits by increasing the eligibility age from 65 to 67. The senator also criticized the hospital lobby for advocating a big jump – from 25 percent to 35 percent – in what Medicare patients pay for each visit to a doctor. “I find it disgraceful that the

ED SCHULTZ: Joining us now, Vermont Senator, Independent, Bernie Sanders. You’re on the Ed Schultz radio show. Senator, good to have you with us. SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT: Good to be with you, Ed. SCHULTZ: Did you expect the Occupy movement to get this big and go this far? What’s your pulse on this right now? SANDERS: Well, I