Bank That Supports Colorado Business Efforts to Export Products to Shut Down Next Month Without Congressional Action Ex-Im Bank Backed Nearly $60 Million in Assistance to Colorado Businesses 2011-2012 Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet toured a Denver manufacturing facility today to highlight the need to re...

Bennet Statement on Signing of Crowdfunding into Law

Crowdfunding Part of JOBS Act Signed into Law Today

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement today after President Obama signed into law the Jumpstarting Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which includes Bennet’s crowdfunding measure to allow small businesses and start-ups to raise capital online and through social media. “Colorado is rich w...

Senate Committee Plan Adopts Bennet-Hatch-Burr Bipartisan Bill to Bring Breakthrough Treatments to Patients More Quickly

HELP Committee Releases Discussion Draft to Accelerate Patient Access to New Innovative Medical Treatments for Serious or Life-Threatening Diseases

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet’s bipartisan bill to help bring breakthrough drugs to patients who need them more quickly has been included in a Senate committee plan introduced today. The Senate Health Education Labor and Pension Committee unveiled a bipartisan plan to advance important medical and bioscience innovat...
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on the birthday of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. He would have been 85 tomorrow. “Tomorrow, we take time to reflect on Cesar Chavez’s historic advocacy for social justice and fair working conditions. The legacy of this educator and civil right...
U.S. Senador de Colorado Michael Bennet publicó la siguiente declaración sobre el cumpleaños del activista de derechos civiles César Chávez. Hubiera cumplido 85 años mañana. "Mañana, tomamos tiempo para reflexionar sobre la defensa histórica de Cesar Chávez ...

House Passes Bennet Amendment to Allow Small Businesses and Start-Ups to Raise Capital Online and Through Social Media

Amendment that Improves Investor Protections in JOBS Bill Now on its Way to White House to Become Law

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed on a bipartisan basis Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet’s amendment to allow small businesses and start-ups to raise capital online and through social media while also protecting investors. The amendment passed as part of the Jumpstarting Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, whi...
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today urged their Senate colleagues to pass a bill that would extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC), along with several other renewable energy incentives, such as biofuels. The bill is paid for with a repeal of tax subsidies for the five biggest oil and gas companies...

Bennet, Hatch and Burr Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bring Breakthrough Treatments to Patients More Quickly

Bill Would Expedite FDA Approval and Increase Clinical Trial Flexibility of Drugs and Treatments That Show Dramatic Early Responses

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Richard Burr (R-NC) today introduced a bipartisan bill to help bring breakthrough drugs and treatments to patients who need them more quickly. The Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act would expedite U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and provid...