Press Releases

Bennet, Democratic Colleagues Press Trump Administration to Reverse Change that Undermines COVID-19 Hospital Data Collection and Reporting

The White House Gave Hospitals 48 Hours to Switch Their Data Reporting to a New System the Administration Set Up from the System at CDC Hospitals Have Used for Years

Jul 20, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 45 of his Democratic Senate colleagues wrote to Vice President Mike Pence and Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, urging the Trump Administration to reverse recent changes requiring hospitals to report data to a new system set up by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instead of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), which is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and has been in use for over a decade.
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Bennet Backs Colorado Statewide Mask Order

Jul 16, 2020
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement in support of the statewide mask order, which goes into effect at midnight, announced by Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
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Bennet, Colleagues Criticize Trump Changes That Substantially Understate the Costs of Climate Change, Putting America’s Economic Health at Serious Risk

GAO Report Released by Senators Found That Administration Has No Plan to Address Recommendations from Leading Experts

Jul 15, 2020
In a report released by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and six U.S. Senate colleagues, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal government’s core measure of the costs of climate change, the social cost of carbon, mean “current federal estimates [of climate effects] . . . are about 7 times lower than the prior federal estimates.”
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Bennet, Bicameral Democratic Lawmakers Urge ICE, DHS to Immediately Withdraw New Guidance that Threatens International Students with Deportation

Lawmakers: "ICE's new policy is irrational and xenophobic, and risks the health of students, faculty, and staff."

Jul 10, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 97 members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives in a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging the agencies to withdraw new guidance from ICE that threatens international students with deportation if they do not take in-person classes this coming academic year.
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Bennet, Harris Urge Facebook to Strengthen Efforts to Protect Civil Rights, Combat Voter Suppression

Following New Audit of Facebook’s Civil Rights Policies, Senators Call on Company to Improve Policies to Defend American Democracy and Civil Rights Ahead of 2020 Elections

Jul 10, 2020
Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) wrote to Facebook urging the company to strengthen efforts to protect civil rights, remove hate speech, and combat voter suppression on its platforms by heeding recommendations of a newly released audit of the company’s civil rights policies and practices.
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GRAMMY Awards® Organization Endorses Bennet, Young RESTART Act

Recording Academy® Supports Bipartisan Proposal That Would Support Performers, Songwriters, and Studio Professionals

Jul 09, 2020
Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) announced the Recording Academy’s (the organization behind the GRAMMY Awards) formal endorsement of their bipartisan Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in Twenty-twenty (RESTART) Act to support the small- and mid-sized businesses most affected by the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Bennet, Wicker Introduce American Infrastructure Bonds Act

Senators Propose New Class of Financing for Local Projects

Jul 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) announced the introduction of the American Infrastructure Bonds Act of 2020, legislation that would create a new class of “direct-pay” taxable municipal bonds to help struggling governments finance critical public projects in the wake of the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Bennet, Colleagues Urge State Department to Ensure Americans Overseas Can Vote During Pandemic

COVID-19 Continues to Restrict Mail and Travel in Many Countries, Jeopardizing the Ability of Americans Overseas, Including Members of the Military, to Vote

Jul 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 12 of his Democratic colleagues urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take action to ensure that Americans overseas can vote during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Bennet, Colleagues Defend State Clean Cars Standards Against the Trump Administration’s Unlawful Attack

147 Members of the Senate and House Urge the U.S. Court of Appeals to Reject the Trump Administration’s Effort to Undo State Clean Cars Standards

Jul 08, 2020
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 28 U.S. Senators and 118 U.S. Representatives in filing an amicus brief in the case of Union of Concerned Scientists, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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