BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and singer-songwriter Grace Potter hosted two town meetings on the arts last Saturday in White River Junction and South Burlington with young Vermont artists and Vermonters from across the state. The events featured performances by Potter, as well as up-and-coming Vermont artists Kingdom All Stars, Sound Check, and Catherine Viner. Following the performa  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release statement on Aug. 9, 2023: Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in thanking the Biden Administration for its continued support for New England communities impacted by flooding in July 2023, and requesting the Administration continue to support communities,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following commentary to Fox News on Aug. 8, 2023: * * * Climate change is a threat to the planet: We must address it Obviously, climate change is not real. I've heard, you've heard, "expert" after "expert" telling us for years how climate change is a "fraud." We've heard from our friends at the oil companies who made $196 billion in profits last year that the evidence for it is "inconclusive." We've listened to politicians and  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following commentary to MSNBC on Aug. 3, 2023: * * * While The World Burns, Fossil Fuel CEOs Are Lining Their Pockets In recent days, nearly two-thirds of the population of the United States of America has been under either a flood warning or watch or a heat advisory. Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are the highest ever recorded. Wildfires ravage parts of Greece. A typhoon has forced tens of thousands of people from their hom  more

PERU, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: This week, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) attended Southern Vermont Communications Union District's (SoVT CUD) celebration of broadband buildout across 14 southern Vermont towns. By the end of this year the CUD will have provided broadband coverage via fiber to more than 99% of the residents and businesses in SoVT's member communities, including Arlington, Bennington, Londonderry, and Peru. Dur  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) today celebrates the implementation of the Senator's Home Efficiency Rebates program for residential energy efficiency upgrades across the United States. The new rebate program, which the Senator first introduced and championed as the HOPE for HOMES Act and successfully passed as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act, will be available to households across the U.S. af  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 9, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) today sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to work closely with Congress to secure supplemental disaster aid for urgent flood recovery and long-term disaster mitigation in Vermont. This letter comes as Congress must act to provide additional federal funding for agencies that r  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 9, 2023: Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Congresswoman Becca Balint (VT-AL) today sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to work closely with Congress to secure supplemental disaster aid for urgent flood recovery and long-term disaster mitigation in Vermont. This letter comes as Congress must act to provide additional federal funding for agencie  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 11 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release and letter on Aug. 9, 2023: Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Congresswoman Becca Balint (VT-AL) today sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to work closely with Congress to secure supplemental disaster aid for urgent flood recovery and long-term disaster mitigation in Vermont. This letter comes as Congress must act to provide additional federal funding for agenci  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: On the one-year anniversary of the PACT Act, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-25) celebrated the inclusion of their Reducing Exposure to Burn Pits Amendment in this year's Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in late-July. The bipartisan amendment, which Senator Welch introduced alongside Senators Murkowski (R-AK) and Tillis (R-NC), will direct the Department o  more