Press Releases

Bennet, Colleagues Urge State Department to Ensure Americans Overseas Can Vote During Pandemic

COVID-19 Continues to Restrict Mail and Travel in Many Countries, Jeopardizing the Ability of Americans Overseas, Including Members of the Military, to Vote

Jul 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 12 of his Democratic colleagues urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take action to ensure that Americans overseas can vote during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Bennet, Colleagues Defend State Clean Cars Standards Against the Trump Administration’s Unlawful Attack

147 Members of the Senate and House Urge the U.S. Court of Appeals to Reject the Trump Administration’s Effort to Undo State Clean Cars Standards

Jul 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 28 U.S. Senators and 118 U.S. Representatives in filing an amicus brief in the case of Union of Concerned Scientists, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Bennet, Young Build Momentum for RESTART Act

Senators’ Bipartisan Proposal Would Support Hardest-Hit Small- and Mid-Sized Businesses Through Next 6 Months

Jul 02, 2020
U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) continue to build momentum for their bipartisan Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in Twenty-twenty (RESTART) Act to support the small- and mid-sized businesses most affected by the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.
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Bennet Asks FCC Chairman to Answer Criticisms of Strategy to Deploy 5G

Following Critical GAO Report, Senator Urges Chairman Pai to Address Concerns Raised

Jul 02, 2020
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to answer criticisms from a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticizing the Commission’s strategy for deploying 5G mobile networks.
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Bennet, Gardner, Romney, Sinema Introduce Legislation to Modernize Disease Detection to Help Stimulate Economy

The TEST Act Will Enhance Collaboration and Improve Federal Support for State and Local Public Health Departments

Jul 02, 2020
Today, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D) and Cory Gardner (R) and U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) introduced the Timely and Effective Systematic Testing (TEST) Act, sweeping legislation to strengthen the nation’s health preparedness efforts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery and future pandemics by requiring a plan for diagnostic testing and public health system integration to better detect infectious diseases, prevent outbreaks, and avoid future economic shutdowns related to pandemics.
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Bennet, Wicker, Stabenow, Colleagues Introduce LOCAL Infrastructure Act

Legislation Would Restore Advance Refunding for Local Governments

Jul 01, 2020
Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Tom Carper (D-Del.), introduced the Lifting Our Communities through Advance Liquidity for Infrastructure (LOCAL Infrastructure) Act.
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Bennet, Colleagues Criticize Trump EPA’s Failure to Listen to Experts and Protect Americans from Harmful Pollution

Senators: “Hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost every year if this proposal is finalized; lives that are disproportionately in low-income communities, communities of color, and Tribal and Indigenous communities.”

Jun 30, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 13 Senate Democrats pushed back against Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s decision to ignore public health experts and insufficiently protect Americans from particulate matter (PM).
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