Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 – A Senate committee today advanced legislation by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to reauthorize the Older Americans Act, which supports Meals on Wheels and other services for the country’s rapidly-growing population of seniors. The 5-year reauthorization sent to the Senate floor by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was cosponsored by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called for Department of Veterans Affairs programs to be funded one year in advance to improve planning and avoid service disruptions in any future government shutdowns. Sanders said Congress should ensure that disability compensation, pensions and education benefits are not disrupted. “As we saw earlier this month,

BURLINGTON, Vt., Oct. 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today decried “outrageous” eavesdropping by the National Security Agency on some of the United States’ closest allies. Sanders is cosponsoring legislation that would significantly rein in the sweeping surveillance activities of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In a letter to President Barack Obama, the senator also voiced concern that

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