The Senate and House Armed Services Committees unveiled the final version of the Defense Authorization bill, called a conference report, which includes provisions based upon a bill introduced by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet to give the Administration the ability to tailor export restrictions on certain satellites and compon...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. “I am saddened to learn that we lost a great leader in the United States Senate today. Senator Inouye was a war hero, who served the state of Hawaii and this country with great dignity and honor. We will ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement after the shooting today at a Connecticut elementary school. “The terrible news out of Connecticut is staggering. Like all Colorado families, my family is grieving and our hearts are with the victims, their families, and all of the students and employees ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today pressed Senate leaders on the Armed Services Committee to include reforms to satellite export controls in the final version of the Defense Authorization bill, called a conference report, that the Committee is expected release finalized next week. Bennet has been working with the leadersh...

Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall welcomed language in the Senate's $60.4 billion Supplemental Appropriation for Disaster Assistance bill, unveiled today, which includes $125 million the senators successfully advocated for and secured to support watershed remediation efforts. Udall and Bennet said this level of investment &nda...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today joined a bipartisan group of 33 senators to urge Senate leadership to include the Senate-passed 2012 Farm Bill as part of any end-of-year package. In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senators wrote, “With each passing d...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today welcomed the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River Supply and Demand Study, which projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years. The report includes various possible strategies to address the projected imbal...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today conveyed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) feedback he has received from Coloradans on the crowdfunding provision he authored in the JOBS Act that was signed into law in April. The SEC is preparing to draft regulations on crowdfunding. In a letter to Mary Schapiro, cha...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today applauded a new policy issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce legal vulnerabilities for Good Samaritans who volunteer to clean up abandoned mine sites. EPA headquarters in Washington issued a memorandum to its regional offices that encourages clean-up activities at...

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today introduced a bill to boost resources for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to help support the long-term recovery from this summer’s devastating wildfires in Colorado. Additional EWP resources would be parti...