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 ...

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 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. Senator Michael Bennet today praised the Senate’s swift reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which he cosponsored. Included in the bill are Bennet’s SAFER Act, which would help reduce the national backlog of rape kits, and the Campus SaVE Act, a provision Bennet cosponsored that aims ...

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...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. “The President’s call for a bipartisan fix to our broken immigration system is in line with Colorado’s values. From our robust agriculture, tourism and hi-tech indu...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today attended the White House Medal of Honor Presentation Ceremony for Staff Sergeant Clinton Lavor Romesha. Sergeant Romesha is the fourth living Medal of Honor Recipient from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Romesha was a Fort Carson soldier, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division just outside C...

Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Reps. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Cali.) and Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), today introduced legislation to reduce infant deaths and disabilities by expanding research, education, and intervention activities related to preterm birth. Sen. Bennet said: “The United States can ...

Continuing their fight for Colorado communities impacted by last year’s wildfires, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today introduced a bill that would restore resources that were stripped from the Hurricane Sandy aid package by the House of Representatives. The bill would cover the backlog of Emergency W...