Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been appointed to a Senate and House budget conference committee to create a long-term budget plan by Dec. 13 to avert another government shutdown. A member of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders said he looks forward to developing an alternative to the stopgap, sequestration-level budget that Congress approved late Wednesday as

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today he will vote to end the two-week-old “nightmare” that shut down much of the government and brought the country to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default. “I have heard from people in Vermont and throughout the country including veterans worried about their disability benefits and Social Security recipients concerned

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 – With senior poverty in the United States significantly increasing, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today expressed deep concern that Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees may receive only a 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment next year. The estimate that the typical retiree is in line for only a $17 a month raise, one of the smallest

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after Senate Republicans on a party-line vote blocked consideration of a measure to raise the federal debt ceiling: “I find it incredible that every Republican voted against a motion to even let the Senate consider legislation to pay our bills and prevent a default. We are entering very

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the 11-day-old government shutdown and the debt ceiling: “It is imperative that Republicans stop holding the American people hostage and let us reopen the government and pay our bills. Frankly, given the enormous problems facing this country, it is beyond belief that we have wasted weeks debating

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today chaired a hearing on the deadly consequences and “invisible plague” that would occur if congressional Republicans are allowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “How many people will die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed?” Sanders asked at the outset of the hearing. He cited a Harvard study that found