Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, with Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.), will hold a town meeting on the youth mental health crisis on Thursday, June 29. Together, the Vermont Congressional Delegation will give an update on the actions being taken at

Sanders and EPA Administrator Regan will be joined by Sen. Welch, Rep. Balint, SunCommon, and other community leaders at press conference announcement, after which will open up to questions from the media BURLINGTON, Vt., June 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday will welcome U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan to Vermont to announce new funding

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tomorrow on Tuesday, June 27 will be visiting Windham County. He will hold a press conference to announce a significant federal investment to expand primary health care capabilities in the southern part of the state. Sanders will also host a roundtable discussion with Brattleboro area veterans and a meeting with high

Last year, the DOD failed its fifth audit and was unable to account for over half of its assets, which are in excess of $3.1 trillion, or roughly 78 percent of the entire federal government. WASHINGTON, June 21 – As the recent debt ceiling deal increased military spending to $886 billion for fiscal year 2024, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and

WASHINGTON, June 21 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a senior member and former chair of the HELP Committee, today released the following statement announcing the HELP Committee will hold a hearing in the Fall on the disastrous Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade:

WASHINGTON, June 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sent a letter today to Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy initiating a HELP Committee investigation into the abysmal safety record in Amazon’s warehouses and the company’s treatment of workers who are injured in those warehouses. Sanders also published a