Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today urged Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to treat National Guard and Reserve members and civilian employees the same as other military personnel who may be paid even during a partial government shutdown.  After the shutdown began on Tuesday, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed legislation to

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) cosponsored a bill to compensate federal workers furloughed because most of the United States government is shut down. “Federal workers in Vermont and around the country should not have to pay the price for the House Republicans’ refusal to keep the government open,” Sanders said. “These dedicated workers have families to feed

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,