Bill Would Bolster Manufacturing Quality, Raise Safety Standards and Grant FDA Authority to Protect American Consumers Bennet Proposals Also Included in FDA Reauthorization Medical Device Plan Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Chuck Grassley (R...

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Herb Kohl (D-WI), introduced the bipartisan Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Act. The bill would give the Food and Drug Administration the tools it needs to improve oversight of medical devices. Defective ...

Raise Questions on Delays, Lack of Uniformity In Letter to Labor Secretary Urges Secretary to Host Regional Meetings with Ag Stakeholders to Improve Program Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues, today expressed concerns with how the H-2A Visa program—critical to ...

Evocan Cuestiones Sobre las Demoras y Falta de Uniformidad en Una Carta a la Secretaria de Labor Urgen a la Secretaria que Organice Juntas Regionales con Grupos Interesados de Agricultura para Mejorar el Programa U.S. Senador de Colorado Michael Bennet, junto con un grupo bipartidista de sus colegas en el Senado, expresó...

Will Provide Certainty for Colorado Transportation Projects Includes Bennet-Backed Changes to Rural Transit Formula and Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning The U.S. Senate today passed a transportation bill that will provide more certainty for transit projects in Colorado and includes a provision Colorado U....

Have Already Urged Action By IRS, FEC, FCC—Now Planning Legislative Remedy As Well In 2012 Alone, Outside Groups Have Spent $90M Influencing Elections—Many Groups Raise Funds in Unlimited Quantities and Do Not Disclose Donors Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has teamed with a group of colleagues to form a ta...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Scott Brown (R-MA) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) today introduced a bipartisan bill to help expand investments in Colorado small businesses and start ups. The Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure (“CROWDFUND”...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement after the Senate failed to pass a compromise amendment package that included an extension of the wind energy production tax credit (PTC), which is set to expire at the end of 2012 if Congress fails to act. The amendment included several additional energy ta...

The Colorado Congressional delegation today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) preliminary approval of Colorado’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) to reduce regional haze pollution in Colorado’s national parks and wilderness areas. The EPA’s proposal to adopt the plan would approve the...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with six of his Senate colleagues, has introduced a bipartisan bill to address deficiencies in the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) women-owned small business contracting program, which Congress directed SBA to establish more than 10 years ago. In addition to Bennet, the Fair...