Press Releases

WASHINGTON, July 22 – Addressing hundreds of low-wage workers who have gone on strike for a living wage, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said legislation he introduced today would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. “It is a national disgrace that millions of full-time workers are living in poverty and millions more are forced to work two or

WASHINGTON, July 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he strongly supports a bill by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to reinstate the post-Depression Glass-Steagall Act which regulated the financial services industry. “We not only must reinstate this important law, but we also have to break up the too-big-to-fail financial institutions in this country. If an institution is too big

WASHINGTON, July 16 – As President Barack Obama spotlighted problems with prisons in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called youth unemployment “a national disgrace” and urged Senate colleagues to support legislation to hire 1 million young people. The Senate voted on Sanders’ youth jobs bill on the same day Obama visited a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. “I

WASHINGTON, July 14  – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement after President Barack Obama announced a nuclear agreement with Iran: “I congratulate President Obama, Secretary Kerry and the leaders of other major nations for producing a comprehensive agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. This is a victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling and could keep

WASHINGTON, July 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and three colleagues today asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate “ridiculous prices” for cable and broadband services. “Consumers in our country have little or no choice in their Internet and cable provider,” Sanders wrote in the letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. “As a result, these companies are able to charge

WASHINGTON, July 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called our nation’s approach to children “nothing less than a disgrace and an international embarrassment.” Sanders made the remarks in announcing a proposal to provide 1 million jobs for young people over the next two years. He will offer the jobs legislation as an amendment to an education bill now before