Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today applauded the passage of an amendment to allow the Department of Defense (DoD) to continue to invest in alternative fuels. The amendment, introduced by Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), to the National Defense Authorization bill gives the Pentagon more flexibility to purchase some alternative fue...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today congratulated Confluence Energy and West Range Reclamation on each winning a 10-year U.S. Forest Service stewardship contract. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the two companies would be awarded contracts totaling $13.4 million to improve the health of 20,000 ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is encouraging military veterans to apply for assistance from the Veterans’ Student Loan Relief Fund if they have been defrauded or misled by for-profit colleges and incurred educational debt or are experiencing financial difficulties as a result. “Many veterans count on their educ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet signed on as a cosponsor to a bill that would create a panel to examine and recommend how and where to best establish a museum in our nation’s capital dedicated to women’s history. The bipartisan bill was introduced by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) in September. “American wome...

U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today praised passage by the Senate of the bipartisan PREEMIE Act, their bill to expand research, education, and intervention activities related to preterm birth. Alexander said, “This bill will give the more than 200 premature babies born on average each ...

Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall welcome President Barack Obama’s nomination today of Raymond Moore, the current federal public defender for Colorado and Wyoming, to the U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado. Moore, if confirmed, would replace Chief Judge Wiley Y. Daniel, who is becoming a senior judge in Janu...

With Congress resuming its work in Washington this week, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today urged the House of Representatives to take up and pass the 2012 Farm Bill. The bill garnered broad, bipartisan support when the Senate passed it in June. The House Agriculture Committee passed its own version with bipartisan support....

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today urged the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to review the manner in which education benefits are delivered to veterans to ensure that they are received in a timely manner. As a growing number of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are taking advantage of federal education benefits, some a...

With Congress back in session following the election, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today renewed his call for Congress to pass an extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) to provide certainty for wind companies in Colorado. “Over the last several months we’ve seen preventable job losses in Colo...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is calling for the modernization of the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) large air tanker fleet to help fight wildfires. The request comes after a summer of devastating wildfires in Colorado and after several new wildfires broke out in the past month. “After a wildfire season that has ...