Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 7 – The Senate today unanimously approved and sent to President Barack Obama a bill to support and expand social and nutrition services for seniors. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leader in the effort to reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act, applauded the bill’s passage. “A nation is judged by how it cares for its most vulnerable,” Sanders

WASHINGTON, April 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement after the Department of the Treasury issued new rules that would curb the tax dodging practice known as corporate inversions: “I am pleased that the Treasury has announced new rules to block profitable American companies from gaming the system to dodge U.S. taxes. While the full impact is still

WASHINGTON, April 4 – The Secretary of the Air Force on Monday announced that the new F-35A Lightning II fighter will be stationed in Burlington in the Summer of 2019, several months earlier than expected.  Vermont’s congressional delegation – Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch – issued the following joint statement after the announcement: “According to the

WASHINGTON, April 4 – Low-income Americans are dying younger than their higher-income peers and are losing out on earned Social Security benefits, according to a new study prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders by the Government Accountability Office. As a result of growing disparities in life expectancy between the rich and poor, the progressive effect of Social Security is eroding. American

WASHINGTON, March 28 – A group of Senate and House lawmakers led by Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), co-chairs of the Prescription Drug Taskforce, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), today urged the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health to step in to lower the cost of a prostate cancer drug, Xtandi, which costs four

WASHINGTON, March 23  – Sen. Bernie Sanders and 16 senators urged Senate appropriators in a letter this week to dedicate funds for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence in the United States. A 1996 Republican appropriations rider prohibits federal funds from being used to advocate or promote gun