Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and 15 Senate colleagues in a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh requesting information on their investigations into child labor exploitation of unaccompanied non-citizen children.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper introduced the Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area Act to protect over 68,000 acres of public lands in Southwestern Colorado.

Yesterday, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined PBS Newshour anchor Amna Nawaz in a conversation on reducing child poverty in the United States hosted by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and bipartisan House and Senate Members to introduce the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a comprehensive proposal to protect workers’ right to come together and bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Colorado U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, and U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse welcomed $39 million from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to address post-fire recovery needs in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests (ARNF) from the East Troublesome and Cameron Peak fires.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, and Colorado U.S. Representative Jason Crow introduced the Protect the West Act to make a $60 billion investment in our forests to reduce wildfire risk, restore our watersheds, and protect our communities.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and their colleagues in sending a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure urging the agency to ensure that the gains made in reducing the number of uninsured children are not lost as states begin to unwind Medicaid policies that have been in place since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in reintroducing the Major Richard Star Act, a bipartisan bill to provide full military benefits to combat-injured veterans with less than 20 years of military service.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper announced $18,560,000 in funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) would be distributed to Colorado via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine: