Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the below statement following Senate passage of the Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution:

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Tom Udall (D-NM), today offered an amendment to the Senate budget resolution that would have stricken language to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, with more than 20 colleagues, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke urging the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals from Honduras and El Salvador living in the United States, who are contributing to the U.S. economy, paying taxes, and supporting their families.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, with a group of bipartisan, Western senators, today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary David J. Shulkin requesting information on how the VA is addressing the high veteran suicide rate across the Western United States.

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan, independent agency, requesting its review of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Edward Markey (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) were joined today by the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Alaska Wilderness League to call for the removal of any language in the Fiscal Year 2018 Republican budget resolution that would allow for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today introduced legislation to create Medicare-X, a public plan that would offer families, individuals, and small businesses additional, low-cost health insurance choices and create more competition in the marketplace.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D) and Cory Gardner (R), along with U.S. Representative Scott Tipton (R-CO-3), today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded $1.5 million to support business growth in rural Colorado.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, along with Senators John Thune (R-SD), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), last week introduced companion versions of the bipartisan American Prairie Conservation Act.

Colorado U.S Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement in response to President Trump's executive order to loosen regulations under the Affordable Care Act: