Press Releases

Social Security faces new threats from the Republican-controlled House and newly-elected ultra-conservatives in the Senate.  In advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address next Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders urged him to keep his campaign promise to preserve the “strong and vibrant” system that serves more than 52 million Americans. Sanders also is forming a congressional caucus to protect

PITTSFORD, Vt., January 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today visited the Vermont Police Academy in Pittsford to announce federal funding he secured for the institution to make significant upgrades to improve students’ ability to access educational materials wirelessly. Sanders secured a $200,000 federal grant for the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council.  This funding will provide laptop computers for each

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 19 – As Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Washington, D.C., for a state visit, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) questioned why the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History gift shop sells busts of American presidents that are made in China. Sanders called the symbolism both “extraordinary” and “pretty pathetic.” “It appears that a museum owned by the

MONTPELIER, Vt., Jan. 18 – Flanking Gov. Peter Shumlin at a Statehouse press conference, the Vermont congressional delegation today announced federal legislation to let states in 2014 provide better health care at less cost. A provision by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the new federal health care law allows states to propose pilot programs in 2017. Now Vermont’s congressional delegates- Sen. Patrick

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice approved Comcast’s bid to take control of NBC Universal from General Electric: “The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice okayed the merger of Comcast, the nation’s largest distributor of video services, and NBC Universal,

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 14 -Amid warning signs that Social Security faces new threats from some quarters at the White House and on Capitol Hill, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged President Barack Obama to preserve the “strong and vibrant” system that serves more than 52 million Americans. In a letter to the president, Sanders referred to what he called “worrisome reports” that Obama is considering cuts