Amidst a devastating wildfire season in Colorado, including the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today led U.S. Senator Cory Gardner and U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse and Scott Tipton in urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to quickly approve Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) funding to mitigate and recover from wildfire damage.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet announced nearly $21 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to help Colorado combat the opioid crisis.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s decision to cancel all election security briefings for Congress.

This week in the Crested Butte News, Editor Mark Reaman penned an editorial about the Gunnison Public Lands Initiative (GPLI), a project started eight years ago by local community leaders and public lands advocates to develop legislation with Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, co-chair of the Congressional Olympic and Paralympic Caucus, toured the new United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs after it opened to the public on July 30 following years of work on what is now the first comprehensive Olympic museum in the United States, and the first to celebrate both Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet delivered remarks at City Park to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington and demand racial justice in our country.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined local government leaders, broadband stakeholders, and providers in La Junta for a discussion on the region’s efforts to deploy affordable, high-speed broadband for Coloradans in Southeastern Colorado.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 30 Members of Congress in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler expressing their deep concern with a new rule that would weaken the EPA’s ability to limit dangerous methane pollution from the oil and gas sector.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet met with the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District to discuss the progress being made on the Arkansas Valley Conduit and the project’s needs moving forward.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet visited Brown Family Farms where he met with the Republican River Water Conservation District (RRWCD) and discussed his efforts as a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow farmers in Yuma County to use dryland farming practices on land enrolled in the Republican River Conservation Reserve Easement Program (CREP).