Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement about President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016: “The president’s budget begins to move us in the right direction. By rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, we can create millions of good-paying jobs. By making community college free, we

MONTPELIER, Vt., Jan. 31 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has asked President Barack Obama to make millions more American workers eligible for overtime pay. “We need to change outdated overtime rules so that businesses can’t shirk their responsibility simply by labeling workers earning as little as $24,000 a year as supervisors,” Sanders said.  Sanders and 25 other senators sent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 – Calling on Senate colleagues to sustain an expected veto by President Barack Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the Senate today passed a bill to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline:  “With the scientific community telling us loudly and clearly that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement about President Obama’s decision not to be constrained by the sequester caps when he submits his budget on Monday: “I support what the president has proposed and will work to eliminate the artificial sequestration cap on non-discretionary spending. It’s

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 – Senate Republicans today shot down a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to help install up to 10 million solar power systems for homes and businesses in the coming decade. Rebates for solar systems would have been authorized by a Sanders amendment to a Keystone XL oil pipeline bill now before the Senate.  “The scientific community

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 25 – Ahead of an annual budget and economic outlook report due on Monday from the Congressional Budget Office, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued a white payer laying out challenges that he said the Senate Budget Committee and the country must address. The budget panel’s ranking member, Sanders issued the report as the committee prepared to