Press Releases

WASHINGTON, April 24 – The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today held a hearing on how the Department of Veterans Affairs is reaching out to make veterans aware of benefits they are entitled to receive.  “In many areas, the VA does an enormously good job, but no matter how good the programs are it doesn’t mean anything if veterans don’t

WASHINGTON, April 24 – Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) told St. Johnsbury Fire Department Chief Troy Ruggles that his four-year quest to replace the department’s 36-year-old ladder truck is complete. Leahy, Sanders and Welch announced that a $475,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant will help the department replace its 1976 tower truck

WASHINGTON, April 23 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today chaired a Senate hearing on potential solutions to severe shortages in the nation’s primary care workforce. “In the United States today, some 45,000 people unnecessarily die each year because they don’t get to a doctor in time,” Sanders said. “Major reforms in primary care will save lives and save billions in health

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 21 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate environment and energy committees and the sponsor of legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, issued the following statement on Monday’s observation of Earth Day: “Unless we take bold action to reverse climate change, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to look

WASHINGTON, April 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today voted for expanded background checks on gun buyers and for a ban on assault weapons but the Senate rejected those central planks of legislation inspired by the shootings of 20 first-grade students and six teachers in Newtown, Conn. “Nobody believes that gun control by itself is going to end the horrors

WASHINGTON, April 15 – The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today questioned Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki at a hearing on President Barack Obama’s proposed $153 billion budget for the VA in 2014. Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Shinseki that the overall budget for the department “reflects a strong commitment by this administration to provide veterans and