Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday will hold a roundtable discussion with the student finalists of his fourteenth annual State of the Union Essay Contest at the Vermont State House. This year, 454 students from 27 Vermont high schools submitted essays. A panel of seven Vermont educators served as volunteer judges, ranking the essays and selecting

WASHINGTON, March 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m. ET will lead the committee in a hearing titled, “The Older Americans Act: Supporting Efforts to Meet the Needs of Seniors.” “Today in America, it is no secret that too many seniors are struggling

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Sunday by Congressional leadership: Over the past year, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee has been to address the primary care crisis in America

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement urging President Biden to invoke Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, demand Netanyahu restore humanitarian aid access to Gaza or lose U.S. military assistance to Israel: Starvation is taking place in Gaza. Israel is prohibiting aid convoys from delivering desperately needed food and water. This is

WASHINGTON, March 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement calling on the United States to immediately begin a massive humanitarian airdrop of lifesaving supplies to the people of Gaza, who are on the verge of starvation and dehydration, and demanded that Israel open the borders to allow humanitarian aid in to Gaza: The United States, which

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 – According to a new report, commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has failed yet again to take basic steps to combat fraud in its massive contracting enterprise. Among other findings, the report showed the DOD often fails to even utilize the