Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 24 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after The Commission on Wartime Contracting released a report to Congress on ways to  reduce billions of dollars in waste associated with the government’s unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: “As the commission noted, we as a nation have lost billions to waste, fraud,

“This is part of the concerted attack on the middle class and working families of this country by the very wealthiest people in America,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said of the effort by Republican governors in Wisconsin and elsewhere to crush public employee unions. “These guys want to return us to the 1920s when working people had virtually no rights to

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) returned today from a fact-finding tour of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was accompanied by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; Chris Coons, D-Del.; and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. In Pakistan, the delegation met with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Gen. Ashfq Parvez Kayani, the military leader. In Afghanistan, the

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) flew to the Middle East today on the first leg of a fact-finding trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The senator is traveling as part of a congressional delegation that is scheduled to meet with foreign leaders in both countries and to confer with senior U.S. military officials. The delegation returns to Washington

Children’s Defense Fund Supports ‘Foundations for Success’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced legislation to provide child care and early education to all children six weeks old through kindergarten. The Foundations for Success Act would provide pre-school children with a full range of services, leading to success in school and critical support for hard-pressed families nationwide. “As we struggle to recover from

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told a Senate panel today it is time for an aggressive national initiative to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges and railroads. A member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sanders spoke at a hearing on a long-term reauthorization of highway, transit and highway safety programs. In addition to addressing a backlog