Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has introduced two amendments with Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) to the 2012 Farm Bill to further improve the proposed new Agricultural Lands Easement (ALE) program. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) is a cosponsor of both amendments. During the committee process Bennet worked to enhance conservation eas...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Mark Begich (D-AK), John Boozman (R-AR) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) have introduced a resolution to discourage companies not officially associated with the Olympic and Paralympic movement from participating in ambush marketing activities. Ambush marketing is an advertising s...

Includes Bennet-Backed Provisions to Help Farmers, Ranchers, Sportsmen Also Includes Measures to Improve Conservation Programs, Crop Insurance, Focus on Water Quantity The U.S. Senate today cleared a procedural hurdle and voted 90-8 to proceed with the 2012 Farm Bill, which includes several Bennet-backed provisions and amendme...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement today on the U.S. Air Force’s announcement of the decision to postpone indefinitely the plan for low-altitude tactical navigation (LATN) flights over Southern Colorado and New Mexico: “Coloradans are proud of our state’s contribution to the na...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today announced the United States Forest Service (USFS) has awarded the Pagosa Area Biomass Long-Term Stewardship Contract to J.R. Ford and the Pagosa Land Company. The 10-year contract will allow the company to extract forest material designated by USFS for removal to promote fo...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement after the Senate failed to advance the Paycheck Fairness Act. Bennet is an original cosponsor of the bill that would provide women with strengthened tools to negotiate fair wages and establish protections for women who file complaints of gender-based pay di...

In a letter to the House Agriculture Committee, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined Sen. Mark Udall to urge the chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and the committee's ranking member, Rep. Colin Peterson, D-Minn., to reauthorize Stewardship Contracting Projects as part of a robust fores...

Points to Colorado Military Family Separated for Years Letter to CIS Chief Offers Comments on Provisional Waivers for Immediate Relatives Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) have weighed in on a proposal that would allow family members of U.S. citizens to stay in the United States with their fami...

Accelerate Colorado, a partnership between businesses and local governments in Colorado, has sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson expressing the organization’s strong support for the establishment of a satellite office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Colorado. The letter is part of a continuing...

With only a month left before student loan rates double for undergraduate college students across the country, including more than 166,000 in Colorado, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement, renewing his call on Congress to block interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans from increasing. The c...