Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 22 – Vermont’s congressional delegation – Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch – today announced that 4,636 Vermonters will benefit from $2,346,018 in rebates from insurance companies this summer under a provision in the Affordable Care Act. The health care law requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of consumers’ premium dollars on medical

WASHINGTON, June 21 – Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said a farm bill that the Senate approved today includes provisions that would help Vermont’s family farms. One provision would provide insurance to farmers, at modest rates, that would pay them if the price of producing milk falls to $4 dollars above the price of selling milk. Farmers could buy supplemental insurance for a

WASHINGTON, June 21 – The Senate today rejected an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to let states require clear labels on any food or beverage containing genetically engineered ingredients. The vote was 26 to 73. “This is the very first time a bill on labeling genetically engineered food has been brought before the Senate. It was opposed by virtually every major food corporation in the

WASHINGTON, June 20 – The Senate voted today to back a new  Environmental Protection Agency rule controlling mercury and other toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate environment and energy committees, spoke against a resolution by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) that would have blocked implementation of the EPA mercury rule. Before the resolution was defeated by a vote

WASHINGTON, June 20 – More than $128 million to operate 219 community health centers around the country – including $160,417 for the first facility in Addison County – was awarded today in a new round of grants under the Affordable Care Act. A provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the 2010 health care reform law authorized $11 billion to build, expand, and operate community

WASHINGTON, June 19 – Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today announced that Vermont will receive $7.9 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to upgrade the New England Central Railroad in northern Vermont. The federal grant will be used to rehabilitate 19 miles of track between St. Albans and the Canadian border in Alburgh with new rail, ballast