Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and Representative Jared Polis are urging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide funding for disaster-related repairs, helping Colorado recover from last summer’s destructive wildfire season. The funding could enable the state to rebuild its w...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on the agreement between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO on a set of principles for a lesser-skilled worker visa program. “Today’s announcement is encouraging news that gives us further momentum to fix our broken immigration system. We ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today joined Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and a group of 21 other Senators in calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate whether flame retardant chemicals found in everyday household products put Americans’ health at risk. Recent studies have found toxic flame re...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) to introduce a bill to improve access to emergency services in rural and medically underserved areas. The Strengthening Rural Access to Emergency Services Act (S. 328) would amend the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today highlighted the devastating effects of last summer’s drought – one of the worst in decades – on Colorado’s agriculture industry and rural communities in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing. The hearing was held to explore the toll weather disasters have taken on ...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall are continuing their fight for Colorado communities impacted by last year’s wildfires. The senators today urged President Obama to allocate resources for Colorado’s wildfire recovery efforts in his upcoming budget request for Fiscal Year 2014. Last month, the House ...

Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall welcomed news today that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved Raymond Moore’s nomination to the U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado. Moore, if confirmed by the full Senate, would replace Chief Judge Wiley Y. Daniel, who became a senior judge on Jan. 1, 2013. Moore is ...

“The release of today’s Institute of Medicine’s report “Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs” calling for a national track and trace system underscores the urgency of Congress taking steps to improve the integrity of our pharmaceutical distribution supply chain for America’s ...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall joined Senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and Dean Heller (R-NV) in introducing a bipartisan bill to streamline the permit process for renewable energy projects on public lands and reinvest in local communities. The Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act creates a leasing pilot ...

The U.S. Senate today passed a bill authored by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) to help reduce the national backlog of rape kits. The Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Reporting (SAFER) Act, was included in the larger Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that the Senate passed today by a bipartisa...