BURLINGTON, Vermont, June 29 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: At an event today in Waterbury, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced a $7 billion grant competition for rooftop and residential solar that will increase access to affordable, resilient, and clean solar energy for millions of low-income households in Vermont and across the country. Sanders and Administra  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 1 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement Friday after the right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court moved to block President Biden's action to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans: Today's 6-3 Supreme Court decision is a devastating blow for tens of millions of low-income an  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following commentary to the Guardian on June 28, 2023: * * * Our Primary Healthcare System Is A Mess. I Have A Plan To Fix It. Millions of Americans can't access a doctor or dentist or have to wait months to be seen. Let's change that. The bad news is that the US healthcare system is broken and dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita as almost any other country, nearly $13,000 per year, while 85 million Americans rema  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, July 1 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement Friday after the right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court moved to block President Biden's action to cancel student debt for 40 million Americans: Today's 6-3 Supreme Court  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a senior member and former chair of the HELP Committee, today released the following statement announcing the HELP Committee will hold a hearing in the Fall on the disastrous Supreme Court decision to   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) joined ECFiber, Vermont's first Communications Union District (CUD), to celebrate the completion of its mission to build broadband in 23 rural Vermont towns throughout East Central Vermont. The project started during a Town Meeting Day in 2008 when over 20 towns voted to join together to bring broadband to their communities. Eventually, this model would be re  more

GREENSBORO BEND, Vermont, June 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Tonight, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) hosted a Listening Session in Greensboro Bend focused on issues impacting Vermonters in rural communities. During the event, he heard directly from Vermonters about a variety of issues, including how Congress can best support small and family farmers in the upcoming Farm Bill, the importance of building out broadband for rural small businesses  more

WATERBURY, Vermont, June 29 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: Today, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) joined United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL) in Waterbury for an event highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to ensuring everyone is included in the green energy transition. The event was hosted at SunCommon, a Vermont-b  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a statement today in response to recent decisions handed down by the Supreme Court to dismantle affirmative action, roll back LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination protections, and overturn the Biden-Harris Administration's student debt relief program: "The Supreme Court decisions released this week are unacceptable and i  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, June 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced Vermont will receive nearly $230 million to deploy broadband throughout the state as part of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which is a program of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) helped pass the IIJA, also known as the bipartisan infrastructure law, as a Mem  more