Press Releases

WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s decision to abandon plans to close 3,600 rural post offices, including 15 in Vermont, but voiced reservations about a new plan to cut hours of operation. Sanders called on the House to pass a Postal Service reform bill that a bipartisan majority of senators approved on

WASHINGTON, May 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on Sunday’s elections in France and elsewhere in Europe where voters rejected austerity measures unfairly shouldered by working families:  “In the United States and around the world, the middle class is in steep decline while the wealthy and large corporations are doing phenomenally well. The message sent

BURLINGTON, Vt., May 1 – Vermont’s first community health center facility in Addison County will be built and an Essex County site will be refurbished with $2.2 million in new Affordable Care Act grants that the Vermont congressional delegation announced today. The Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region, based in Bomoseen, Vt., was awarded $1.3 million to construct an

Prepared Statement By Sen. Bernie Sanders at the United Against The War On Women Event in Montpelier, Vt. I want to thank Erin Narey and the “United Against the War on Women” campaign for organizing this event. I also want to thank Governor Madeleine Kunin, not only for her excellent remarks today, but for her years of service to the

WASHINGTON, April 26 – The Senate voted 68-31 Thursday to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal law to help women and children escape abuse. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was a cosponsor of the bill authored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). “The act has been extremely successful in Vermont and across the country,” Sanders said. “While we are reducing the incidence of domestic violence, much

WASHINGTON, April 25 – The Senate today voted 62-37 for a bill that Sen. Bernie Sanders helped craft to modernize the U.S. Postal Service, save tens of thousands of jobs and spare rural post offices and scores of mail sorting plants threatened with closure. Sanders (I-Vt.) said a processing center at White River Junction, Vt., would remain open and 15 rural Vermont post offices are likely