Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 – Vermont won more than $3.1 million in Federal Highway Administration competitive grants, including funds to repair the Longley Covered Bridge in Montgomery and the Brown Covered Bridge in Shrewsbury, the congressional delegation announced today. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced the awards. “Vermont fared very well in this very competitive round of

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – A Vermont non-profit has won a $2.9 million grant through the Older Americans Act to train and place low-income Vermonters in jobs around the state, Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch announced today. The grant – part of $260 million in nationwide awards – will go to Vermont Associates for Training and Development, a St.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a field hearing on Monday in Burlington, Vt., to explore gasoline prices in northwestern Vermont. A significant gas price gap between Burlington and the rest of the country has virtually disappeared since Sanders on July 2 first called for a federal investigation into unusually

WASHINGTON, July 31 – More than 4,600 Vermonters are due an average $807 rebate on their health insurance premiums by tomorrow under a provision in the new national health care law, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said today. The Vermont average rebate is greater than any other state. In all, 4,636 Vermont policy holders – all covered by

WASHINGTON, July 30 – In a summer of record heat, severe drought, extreme storms, melting glaciers and raging wildfires, Sen. Bernie Sanders today challenged claims by a leading Republican senator who dismisses global warming as a “hoax.” Sanders (I-Vt.), in a  speech prepared for delivery to the Senate later today, rebutted what he called “myths” espoused by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on

BURLINGTON, Vt., July 27 – As the Summer Olympics open today in London.  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders singled out Lea Davison, Trevor Moore and Andrew Wheating, three Vermonters representing the United States in the world’s most prestigious athletic competition. Lea Davison won the first mountain bike race she ever entered when she was 17 years old.  A native of Jericho, Vt., Lea competed in cross country