Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 25 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today met with health care providers to discuss the future of community health centers, which provide primary care, dental care, low-cost prescription drugs and mental health counseling to more than 110,000 Vermonters. Sanders emphasized that the number of Vermonters receiving dental care through the centers has grown to roughly 20,000

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that new national surveys show that Congress is “way out of touch with the American people” on how to reduce deficits.   “At a time when not a single Republican in Congress is prepared to ask the wealthiest people in this country to pay a little more to help

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 20 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will speak at 10:15 a.m. Thursday at a University of Vermont forum on climate change, energy, green jobs, and the economy.   The senator will address students from UVM and other Vermont colleges as part of a “CAMPUS2CONGRESS” series organized during Earth Week by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy

BURLINGTON, Vt., April 18 – The Vermont congressional delegation issued the following statement after Entergy, the owners of Vermont Yankee, sued to stop the state from closing the plant next year:   “It appears that Entergy has developed a bad case of corporate amnesia in refusing to honor an agreement it signed with the state in 2002. Entergy agreed to

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt., April 18 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Maj. Gen. Michael Dubie, the Vermont National Guard commander, broke ground today on an $8.5 million solar installation that will be one of the biggest in Vermont.   Sanders is chairman of the Senate green jobs subcommittee. He has worked with the Vermont National Guard to make its

                      I’m delighted to be here today to break ground on a very important project for the Vermont National Guard, the State of Vermont, and really our nation as well. Let me first say thank you to General Dubie, and all of the men and women of the Vermont National Guard here today, for not just your support, but also