WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, "Workers Should Benefit from New Technology and Increased Productivity: The Need for a 32-Hour Work Week with No Loss in Pay." Sanders' remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below and can be watch here (https://twitter.com/SenSanders/  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on March 13, 2024: * * * "As a mom of two teenagers, I share the concerns of parents across the country that TikTok in its current form poses a threat to mental health, data privacy, and national security. But let's be clear: the legislation that the House considered today does not ban TikTok, rather it requires divestiture by ByteDance and the sale of TikTok to an American company. This bill is a chance to al  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), alongside Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Col.), Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Richard "Dick" Durbin (D-Ill.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Angus King (I-Maine), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jacklyn Rosen (D-Nev.), Jeanne S  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, March 12 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday evening held a youth choral concert and town meeting on the importance of arts education. Held at the Dibden Center for the Arts on Vermont State University's campus in Johnson, the concert featured nine Vermont elementary, middle, high school, and college choirs singing songs that ranged from traditional to spiritual to pop. The evening c  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Amid the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and five Democratic colleagues in the Senate on Monday sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to enforce federal law by requiring Netanyahu's government to stop restricting humanitarian aid access to Gaza or forfeit U.S. military aid to Israel. In th  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and a representative from the office of Congresswoman Becca Balint (Vt.-AL) this coming week on Monday, March 18 at 1:00 p.m. will hold a press conference to announce millions in federal funding that the Vermont Congressional Delegation secured on behalf of Vermont projects to address critical needs across the state. The funding for  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) today announced that this Thursday he will introduce legislation to establish a standard 32-hour workweek in America with no loss in pay - an important step toward ensuring that workers share in the massive inc  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, "Workers Should Benefit from New Technology and Increased Productivity: The Need for a 32-Hour Work Week with No Loss in Pay." Sanders' remarks, as prepared for deliv  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned experts about how false claims disputing the validity of the 2020 presidential election results have impacted overall confidence in election integrity, and discussed the ramifications of recent restrictive voting laws. Senator Welch also highlighted the need to pass legislation that works to rest  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: Following a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in late-February, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) submitted written questions for the record for Bureau of Prisons Director Collette Peters, continuing to push the Director on why Vermont remains one of only two states without a Residential Reentry Center (RRC) despite the support from the Vermont Congressional Delegation, federal stakeholders  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on March 13, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the Advancing Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Act, legislation to boost investments in grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), a type of transmission technology that expands capacity of existing transmission infrastructure. Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Kathy Castor (D  more