Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued contiguous disaster designations for eight Colorado counties due to recent drought conditions. The designations mean farmers and ranchers are eligible for assistance from the Farm Service Agency. “Despite above-average snow...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today encouraged health IT experts in Colorado to review and provide feedback to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Bennet-requested report on how to best and most appropriately regulate the industry. The FDA will use the report and the feedback it receives to propose a health IT r...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today urged his Senate colleagues to take up and pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help close the pay gap between women and men working the same jobs. Today marks Equal Pay Day, which represents how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the pr...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today applauded Denver Public Schools (DPS) for winning a $6,999,980 Youth Career Connect grant from the U.S. Department of Labor in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education. DPS will use the grant to expand opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet yesterday was named chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure. The Finance Committee also named new chairs on three of its other subcommittees after Senator Ron Wyden was appointed chair of the full committee. As chair of the subcommittee with...

Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Charles Grassley (R-IA), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) have secured an amendment to extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) for two years in the bipartisan tax extenders bill. The amendment was included in an updated draft released by the Senate Finance Committee this morning prior to its cons...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today joined Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to file a bipartisan amendment to extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) to the tax extenders bill unveiled by the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. The amendment would extend the tax credit for two years. &l...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today introduced an amendment to the bipartisan tax extenders bill to allow more solar companies to benefit from the tax advantages of investing in solar projects. The amendment, which mirrored the bipartisan bill Bennet introduced with Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) in February, would allow firms...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down federal election laws limiting the total amount individuals can donate to political campaigns in a single election cycle. “T...

Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement on the passing of Southern Ute Tribal Chairman Jimmy R. Newton, Jr.: “Colorado and the Southern Ute Tribe have lost a strong advocate and leader in Chairman Jimmy Newton, and our thoughts are with his family and community. As one of the youngest people to ever serve on ...