Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 – Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tonight introduced legislation to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs may continue to make disability compensation and pension payments to veterans in the event of an extended government shutdown. “We must not let our veterans be counted among the House Republicans’ hostages,” Sanders said. Many services provided by

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 – The Senate today rejected a House maneuver to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act and let employers deny health care for women as a condition for keeping the government open in a new fiscal year that begins on Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined the 54–46 majority that sent the budget resolution back to the

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report. “Once again, the world’s leading scientists on climate change have spoken. Their conclusion is that global warming is real, that it is already causing enormous problems for our planet, and that it will only get

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted today for a stopgap spending measure to keep the government running when the new budget year begins on Tuesday. The resolution passed 54-44 after the Senate stripped out a provision that had been inserted by the House to defund the Affordable Care Act.  “People can disagree about the Affordable Care Act,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that a threatened government shutdown next Tuesday would cause a loss of jobs and income for thousands of Vermonters and hurt seniors, veterans, college students and others in the state. A shutdown could affect tourism as Vermont enters the peak of fall leaf season and interfere with health care services

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today joined low-paid government contract workers at a rally outside the White House as part of a one-day strike for better pay. Sanders also organized a group of 15 senators who urged President Barack Obama to set a minimum-wage preference for private companies doing business with the federal government and to pay