Press Releases

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today welcomed the U.S. Department of Defense’s announcement that it is withdrawing its land-acquisition waiver that would have to expand the Pinon Canyon...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today announced that the Silverton-based San Juan County Historical Society's small hydro project would be allowed to move forward without...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement on the Senate’s vote to require a simple majority, instead of 60 votes, to consider and confirm executive nominations and...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is warning Veterans attempting to reach the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) about a marketing scam. A marketing...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining in support of his bipartisan bill to protect more than 100,000 acres of the...

The Interior Department announced today that it ultimately disbursed over $14 billion in FY 2013 revenues from mineral leasing on public lands and waters to state, local and tribal governments –...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is reminding Coloradans of approaching deadlines to apply for flood relief. Yesterday, FEMA announced that the deadline to apply for Individual Assistance and...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing an amendment to help reduce waste and government inefficiency by consolidating the total number of...

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and Congressman Scott Tipton urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service today to prioritize funding for its Snow...

Today the Senate passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill that represents the most comprehensive effort to establish safeguards for the drug distribution supply chain in the last quarter-century. The...