Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today pressed Senate leaders on the Armed Services Committee to include reforms to satellite export controls in the final version of the Defense Authorization bill, called a conference report, that the Committee is expected release finalized next week. Bennet has been working with the leadersh...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today joined a bipartisan group of 33 senators to urge Senate leadership to include the Senate-passed 2012 Farm Bill as part of any end-of-year package. In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senators wrote, “With each passing d...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today welcomed the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River Supply and Demand Study, which projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River Basin and adjacent areas over the next 50 years. The report includes various possible strategies to address the projected imbal...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today applauded a new policy issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce legal vulnerabilities for Good Samaritans who volunteer to clean up abandoned mine sites. EPA headquarters in Washington issued a memorandum to its regional offices that encourages clean-up activities at...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today conveyed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) feedback he has received from Coloradans on the crowdfunding provision he authored in the JOBS Act that was signed into law in April. The SEC is preparing to draft regulations on crowdfunding. In a letter to Mary Schapiro, cha...

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today introduced a bill to boost resources for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to help support the long-term recovery from this summer’s devastating wildfires in Colorado. Additional EWP resources would be parti...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today congratulated the St. Vrain Valley School District on winning a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top – District (RTT-D) competition. Only 16 districts out of 372 applicants from across the country won grants. St. Vrain reques...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with former Senator Hank Brown and statewide leaders spanning the political, business, agricultural, civic, and religious spectrum, today unveiled a set of principles signed by over 100 statewide stakeholders to guide a national discussion on comprehensive immigration reform – the C...

El Senador de Colorado Michael Bennet, acompañado por el ex Senador Hank Brown y líderes estatales que abarcan el espectro político, de negocio, agrícola, cívico, y religioso, presentaron hoy un sistema de principios, firmados por más de 100 partes interesadas a través del estado, p...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement on Pearl Harbor Day. “Today, I join Coloradans and Americans as we reflect on the events that took place at Pearl Harbor on this day 71 years ago. We still remember and honor those who fought and paid the ultimate sacrifice defending our country. In...