Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 26 – Addressing hundreds of low-wage workers outside the Capitol, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced legislation Wednesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. “For the last 10 years, Congress, giving tax breaks to the rich, has forgotten to raise the minimum wage. We are here to

WASHINGTON, April 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the United States carried out a missile strike in Syria in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack this week: “In a world of vicious dictators, Syria’s Bashar Assad tops the list as a dictator who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own citizens to

WASHINGTON, April 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Thursday after Senate Republicans voted to change Senate rules to allow the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch and all other Supreme Court justices by simple-majority vote: “I am deeply disappointed that Republicans changed the rules so that they could push through their nominee with fewer than 60 votes.

WASHINGTON, April 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced legislation Monday to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for working families and to significantly reduce student debt. “Higher education in America should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,” Sanders said. “If we are to succeed in a highly competitive global

WASHINGTON, March 28 – Faulting an “unprecedented break with past practice,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Senate Budget Committee ranking member, on Tuesday called on the panel’s chairman to schedule public hearings on President Donald Trump’s “morally obscene” budget blueprint. Sanders said the president’s proposal “includes unacceptably painful cuts to programs that senior citizens, children, persons with disabilities and working people

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 24 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement Friday after House Republican leaders pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor: “The defeat of the disastrous Trump-Ryan health care bill is a major victory for the working families of this country and for the hundreds of thousands who attended