Press Releases

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Vermont Department of Public Service today announced $1 million in federal funding will soon come to Vermont to establish sustainable energy projects at elementary, middle, and high schools across the state – as well as municipal buildings such as public libraries and town halls. The funds were secured by

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will be joined by hundreds of Vermonters for an outdoor town meeting and hike at Barnes Camp Visitor Center on Saturday, June 10.  “One of my favorite parts of living in our state is enjoying the beauty of our great outdoors,” said Sanders. “I organized this event to bring people of

BURLINGTON, Vt., June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and AARP-VT will hold a town meeting on Friday, June 9 to hear directly from older Vermonters about the issues that matter most to them.  The event is a special hybrid in-person and telephone town meeting. Older Vermonters are invited to join Sanders in person at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center,

Companies’ Plan to Charge $26,500 Per Year Could Bankrupt Medicare and America’s Seniors WASHINGTON, June 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra urging the Biden Administration to protect patients and act to substantially reduce the

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy and other panelists to testify WASHINGTON, June 6 – The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will hold a hearing Thursday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. ET titled, “Why Are So Many American Youth in a Mental Health Crisis? Exploring Causes and Solutions.” In 2021, the

WASHINGTON, May 31 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday issued the following statement on the debt ceiling agreement: Let’s be clear. The original debt ceiling legislation that Republicans passed in the House would have, over a 10-year period, made savage cuts to programs that working families, the children, the sick, the elderly, and the poor desperately need. The best