Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, joined Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator John Thune (R-SD) and six others to introduce a bipartisan bill that will spur new agricultural research, leveraging private dollar...

Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement today after President Obama signed the America Invents Act into law. The bill passed the Senate last week with broad bipartisan support. “The signing of this bill is great news for our country’s economy—and for Colorado, whe...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement regarding an announcement made today by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that the Agency has selected the design of a new Space Launch System (SLS). Once completed, the SLS will carry human crews beyond low Earth orbit in the Orion Multi-Pur...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today encouraged the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to seek a comprehensive debt reduction agreement that includes discretionary spending cuts, entitlement changes and tax reform. More than one third of the Senate joined Bennet in lending their support to t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –With students across the country headed back to school, U.S. Senators Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are leading a group of moderate Democratic Senators in pushing for commonsense education reforms. In a letter sent today to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Hagan, Bennet and eight other Senato...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement commending the announcement of voluntary efforts being made by many for-profit colleges, called “Standards of Responsible Conduct and Transparency”: “A college degree is a necessary – though not always suffic...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall urged the Postal Regulatory Commission to carefully consider the effects of possible postal service closures on rural areas and small towns in Colorado and across the country. In a letter to Ruth Goldway, chairwoman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, ...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the below statement following the President’s jobs speech delivered before a joint session of Congress: “No speech can be a catalyst for job creation, but the President presented many useful ideas. What we need now more than ever is for Democrats a...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is encouraging Coloradans to take a moment to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At 11 a.m. MT on Sunday, September 11, governments and businesses, houses of worship and railways, fire and police departments, and others across the country will c...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today applauded final passage of the America Invents Act, a bill that will create jobs, promote innovation and improve our ability to compete economically with countries across the globe. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 89 to 9 and, having passed th...