Six members of the Colorado Congressional delegation called on leaders of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees to advance and pass a Farm Bill in 2012. The bipartisan group said a bill is needed to provide more certainty to farmers, ranchers and rural communities across Colorado. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement in honor of Women’s History Month. “Women’s History Month provides an opportunity for us to celebrate the progress and achievements of American women. It also serves as a reminder of the work we have left to do and the challenges our da...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and U.S. Congressmen Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis expressed their support for federal resources to help complete the U.S. 36 Express Lanes project, which will connect Denver’s Union Station to Boulder. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the members of th...

On the floor of the United States Senate, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today voiced his opposition to an amendment, introduced by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, that would restrict access to contraception and other preventative health care for women. The Senate voted down this amendment 51-48. “I have a wife and thr...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today joined a group of Senators in a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski encouraging swift implementation of a proposed rule to make political advertisements more transparent. “With the 2012 election season already underway, citizens have a right to k...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today continued to highlight Colorado’s leadership in clean energy as well as the need for Congress to extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) in events today in Englewood and Windsor. To start the day, Bennet delivered opening remarks for the Balanced Energy Economy Symposium...

Voters deserve to know who is paying for political advertisements, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 10 of his fellow Senators wrote today in a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). As the FEC considers changes to its rules in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Senators c...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet announced today that Colorado farmers and ranchers in Lincoln County are eligible for disaster assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The announcement comes on the heels of the USDA’s recent designation of Lincoln County as natural disaster areas due to ongoing drought ...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Al Franken (D-MN), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Tom Udall (D-NM), today called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether organizations claiming tax-exempt status are engaging in a substanti...

In a push to keep up the effort to prevent crimes against women, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has signed on as a cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA). “The law enforcement and education programs in this bill are just as critical now as they were when this law was first written,” B...