Press Releases

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Feb. 21 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called on Congress to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security next Friday. The agency’s budget is caught up in Republican effort to thwart President Barack Obama’s immigration policies. “Republicans should stop holding our homeland security hostage and pass a clean, long-term funding bill. Terrorist acts

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the tentative settlement in a strike against FairPoint Communications: “I applaud the extraordinary courage of the FairPoint workers. They have stood together month after month in opposition to a massive assault on decent wages and benefits. Their efforts deserve the thanks of all Vermonters.”

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 19 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Wal-Mart announced that all of its workers in the United States would earn at least $9 an hour by April and $10 an hour by 2016: “The Walton family which owns Wal-Mart is the wealthiest family in America and it is absurd that

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 19 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), appearing tonight at the University of Iowa, will call for a fundamental change in national priorities so that college tuition at public universities and colleges is cut in half. His proposal calls for an $18 billion boost in federal aid for higher education to be matched by states. The

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today called on America’s leading corporations to stop sheltering profits in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens. He also urged them to stop lobbying Congress for additional tax breaks as the Business Roundtable, an organization representing some of the largest corporations in

JOHNSON, Vt., Feb. 17 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), speaking today at Johnson State College, called for a “revolution” in the way higher education is funded in the United States. He proposed tuition-free courses for freshmen and sophomores at all public colleges and universities. He also called for reforms in federal student loans. “In a highly competitive global economy