Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch to serve as attorney general: “I am delighted that Loretta Lynch finally was confirmed by the Senate. I look forward to working with her as the attorney general and I congratulate Sen. Patrick Leahy for all the work he did to

WASHINGTON, April 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that “it makes no sense at all” for Congress to approve a trade agreement that would throw Americans out of work and let multi-national corporations exploit cheap labor in Malaysia, Vietnam and other low-wage nations. In a Senate speech detailing serious defects in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, Sanders said workers

WASHINGTON, April 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today opposed an effort to rush legislation through a Senate committee in order to hurry congressional approval of a controversial trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sanders invoked a Senate rule to stop a morning meeting of the Finance Committee to mark up the so-called fast-track bill. “This job-killing trade deal

WASHINGTON, April 22 – As the nation marked Earth Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced legislation to close tax loopholes and eliminate other subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries. Subsidies for polluters now in place are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. Sanders’ Senate bill and Ellison’s

WASHINGTON, April 21 – Sen. Bernie Sanders today asked Republican presidential candidates to renounce a “grossly unfair” Senate budget proposal to give the wealthiest 5,400 American families another $269 billion in tax breaks while paving the way for a tax hike on working families. “At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, it is beyond belief that Congress would

WASHINGTON, April 20 – Protesting a trade deal that would throw Americans out of work, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today planned to march with leaders of the AFL-CIO and other labor organizations to a rally outside the U.S. trade representative’s office.             “One of the key reasons why the middle class in America continues to decline and the gap between