Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator John Kerry (D-MA) today joined his colleagues Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Pete Domenici (R-NM), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), in introducing legislation to establish a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund (NHTF), which will address the serious housing needs of millions of households. “Affordable housing that working people can count on isn’t just part of

WASHINGTON, December 18 – The Senate late tonight approved a massive domestic spending bill that Senate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) supported after he voted against a separate measure to continue funding the war in Iraq. The final votes on the spending measures came after the Senate rejected a proposal cosponsored by Sanders to bring troops home from Iraq by next May.

A B-24 bomber flying a World War II mission over the Himalayas in 1944 crashed into a mountainous region of northeastern India. The lost crew included two Vermonters; Capt. William A. Swanson of Proctor, the pilot, and Lt. Irwin “Zipper” Zaetz of Burlington, the navigator. One year ago, a mountain climber trekking through rugged terrain 9,000 feet above sea level discovered a portion of a wing with numbers identifying the plane, the Hot as Hell. He notified relatives of the crash victims. They t

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement on
today’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission to overturn a
32-year-old media cross-ownership ban and allow broadcasters in the
nation’s 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper:

Vermont’s congressional delegation asked the National Football League to broadcast the Dec. 29 New England Patriots-New York Giants game in Vermont. The season finale may be seen in Boston and New York for free, but not in most of Vermont, where fans are caught in the middle of a fight between the football league and cable television industry. “What we now have are two very powerful and wealthy special interests, the NFL and the cable companies, squabbling over who is going to be making more mo

WASHINGTON, December 14 – The Vermont congressional delegation has been assured by the Martin Luther King Foundation that American granite will be used in a monument to the civil rights leader in the nation’s capital. Vermont granite suppliers will be eligible to compete for contracts that will be announced in the near future, according to Harry E. Johnson Sr., the