Press Releases

WASHINGTON, June 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that the “minibus” appropriations bill that passed the Senate Monday by a 86-5 vote includes a Sanders-authored amendment to provide $4 million in federal funding to continue operations of the Vermont Regional Test Center (RTC) dedicated to researching solar technologies.  The Vermont RTC, located on land owned by GlobalFoundaries in Williston,

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and five of his Senate colleagues urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a letter to address the detention of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia. At least three women’s rights activists and three men associated with the women’s rights movement are currently detained, and four other women’s rights activists have

WASHINGTON, June 21 – In a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) following his call for the Trump administration to uphold international human rights treaty obligations and present Congress with a plan to alleviate poverty, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed a non-partisan U.N. report on extreme poverty in America as “politically motivated” and “misleading.” “It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations

WASHINGTON, June 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing his administration’s policy of separating families at the southern border: “President Trump’s executive order merely replaces one inhumane act with another. In response to the overwhelming public outrage at his administration’s policy of tearing children away from their parents

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced Monday that Vermont is set to receive $4 million through the State Opioid Response Grants program to help fight Vermont’s opioid epidemic.   In 2017, Vermont saw opioid-related deaths increase by 5 percent to a total of 101.  Furthermore, fentanyl deaths spiked by