Currently, Combat Pay Can Make Dependents of Service Members Ineligible for Child Nutrition Programs When Family Members Go Overseas Bipartisan Legislation Would Permanently Exempt Combat Pay from Income Requirements, Ensure Families Have Access to Nutritional Programs Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado,...

Physicians Spend 3 Weeks Per Year Haggling Over Insurance Claims At An Estimated Cost of $58,000 Per Doctor - Time Better Spent Helping Patients At Event, Bennet Pushes for Health Care Reform that Shifts Power from Insurance Companies to Doctors, Nurses & Patients Denver, CO - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today push...

Washington, DC - In the face of falling commodity prices and rising concerns about the long-term viability of Colorado's dairy sector, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, lauded the Administration's decision to provide immediate support for struggling producers by increasing the amount paid for dairy products through the Dai...

Recent Government Reports Show PBGC Has Significant Structural Flaws That Hinder Its Ability to Properly Insure the Pensions of Coloradans Bennet Pushes Legislation to Significantly Improve the Governance and Oversight Structure of the PBGC Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today pushed to significantl...

75,000 Coloradans Suffer From Alzheimer's Disease But Uncoordinated Federal Programs Hold Back Researchers from Search for Treatments and a Cure Legislation Would Bring Together All Federally Supported Programs to Study and Treat Disease Under One Roof for Better Evaluation and Administration Washington, DC - With over 75,000 C...

The Wall Street Journal - Cutting Repeat Hospital Trips -- Simple Idea, Hard to Pull Off By Ron Winslow and Jacob Goldstein PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- One prescription for slashing billions of dollars from America's health-care spending will come down to questions like this: Can hospitals persuade discharged patients such as Betty Bea...

Washington, DC - With the contracts for over 714,000 acres of Colorado land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) set to expire this September, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, urged United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to make clear the options available to Colorado farmers an...

Washington, DC - As Coloradans continue to voice their concerns about the burden mounting debts and deficits may place on future generations, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, called on Congress and the Administration to take seriously the need to get America's fiscal house in o...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) today applauded the House of Representatives for passing legislation that would require greater fiscal restraint in Congress and reduce the national deficit. The legislation, known as Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO), would require Congress to find a way to pa...

Washington, D.C.-Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, U.S. Senators for Colorado, announced today that the City of Fort Collins will receive $4,841,647 in Recovery Act funds from the U.S. Department of Energy for a smart-grid demonstration project that aims to reduce peak load electricity demand by at least 15 percent at distribution fee...