Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement after the final text of the Toxic Substances Control Act was released: “The need for chemical safety reform has been set aside for far too long. While this legislation allows Vermont to continue enforcing existing state regulations to keep adults and children safe from toxic chemicals such as PFOA,

WASHINGTON, May 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement today after House Republicans unveiled legislation to address Puerto Rico’s financial crisis: “The legislation that was announced today to establish an unelected control board in Puerto Rico is a move in exactly the wrong direction. “This undemocratic board would have the power to slash pensions, cut education and health care,

WASHINGTON, May 19 – A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to ensure that severely disabled veterans receive quality care from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) passed today as an amendment to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development/Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations package being considered in the Senate this week. The amendment

WASHINGTON, May 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and a group of 26 seantors today in calling on the President to fulfill the Administration’s commitment to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States this fiscal year. He recently reiterated this commitment, but so far in the first seven months of

BURLINGTON, May 6 – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Federal Railroad Administrator Sarah E. Feinberg, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Governor Peter Shumlin Friday gathered in front of Union Station in Burlington to celebrate progress made to restore passenger rail service to the iconic stop by Lake Champlain and improve freight service across Vermont’s Western

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 4 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders today announced Vermont will receive $3 million from the National Housing Trust Fund. The funds are part of $174 million that is being dispersed nationally to build, preserve, and rehabilitate affordable rental housing. Sanders helped lead a 15-year effort to pass and fund the National Housing Trust Fund. “Since my time