Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today congratulated Mercury Payment Systems in Durango after it was named Technology Company of the Year by the Colorado Technology Association. The award is given out annually to a company that demonstrates leadership in innovation and profitability and shows a commitment to the community. &l...

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) released the following statement regarding the pharmaceutical drug distribution security discussion draft released today by the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee. The draft is the next step in continued discussion to establish a uniform,...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on the preliminary report released by the City of Colorado Springs on Waldo Canyon Fire and the city’s response efforts. “This report will help provide insight into how best to respond to catastrophic wildfires like the Waldo Canyon Fire, which we k...

A group of sixteen organizations and trade associations have added their support to a bill Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet introduced to reform our export controls that unfairly penalize the American aerospace industry and benefit countries that may not share our interests. The bill would allow the Administration to tailor exp...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is accepting internship applications from undergraduate students, recent graduates and graduate students for his Washington, DC and Colorado offices. In addition to his Washington office, internships are available year round in the following Colorado locations: Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango,...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today announced that the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Education and Charitable Foundation has received a $175,000 competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Cooperative Development Grant program. The competitive grant will be used to support a busines...

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet applauded news that the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. has approved a loan of more than $100 million to help Grand Junction-based International Concept Management (ICM) begin construction on an aquarium in Brazil, which, when completed, will be the third largest in the world. The announcement from Ex-Im ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today encouraged Colorado farmers and ranchers to attend a drought response and recovery workshop to be hosted by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Pueblo on Monday. Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Commerce, Small Business Administration (SBA), and...

Several key organizations are announcing support for a bill U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Rob Portman have introduced to make federal job training programs more responsive to the needs of the 21st-century job market. The Careers Through Responsive, Efficient, and Effective Retraining (CAREER) Act would help ensure that job tra...

Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall requested today that the U.S. Forest Service study the High Park and Waldo Canyon fires in an effort to understand the social, economic, organizational and ecological impacts of these fires and better mitigate the impact of future blazes. “Studying this summer’s devastating wildf...