Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a video Tuesday illustrating the extraordinary wealth of Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, contrasted with the fact that many Amazon workers must rely on public assistance programs due to low wages and face exhausting working conditions. Later on Tuesday, Amazon News responded to the video on Twitter, saying: “We’ve created

                     NORTHFIELD, Vt., May 19 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a Veterans Town Hall and Resource Fair on Saturday at Norwich University. Roughly 150 Vermonters attended the event which highlighted national, statewide and local resources for Vermont veterans and their families. “I wanted to hold today’s veterans town meeting because now, more than ever, veterans deserve to know

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt., May 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met with roughly  325 Vermont high school students Friday to discuss job training and career opportunities after graduation. Students from the Burlington Technical Center, Essex Center for Technology, Essex High School and Northwest Technical Center participated in the discussion. Sanders, who serves on the Senate education committee, was joined

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Friday after reports that the Trump administration will ban family planning clinics that receive Title X federal funds from discussing abortion with women, or sharing space with abortion providers: “Today’s announcement of the ‘domestic gag rule’ which will prevent abortion providers from receiving Title X funds

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 16 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined an effort with 10 other senators calling on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and other administration officials to immediately release a study reportedly being kept secret by the Trump administration which shows that perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are dangerous at far lower levels than EPA previously said was safe. Since 2016,

WASHINGTON, May 16 – Following weeks of violence in Gaza, during which roughly 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 10,000 wounded by Israeli snipers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 12 of his Democratic Senate colleagues called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “do more to alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.” “The territory’s lack of