Press Releases

Bennet, Hickenlooper Celebrate $9.5 Million for Solar Innovation In Colorado

Funded In Part By the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Colorado Organizations Will Help Scale Up Domestic Solar Manufacturing And Build Our Clean Energy Grid

Apr 20, 2023
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed $9.5 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to help build out America’s domestic solar supply chain and develop technologies that strengthen our clean energy grid.
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Bennet, Marshall Introduce Legislation to Improve Flexibility of USDA Farmland Conservation Program

Senators Unveil the CREP Improvement Act Ahead of Their Subcommittee Hearing on the Conservation Title in the Farm Bill Today

Apr 20, 2023
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, and U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), the subcommittee’s Ranking Member, introduced the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Improvement Act to provide the flexibility family farmers and ranchers need to conserve water on working lands, while fairly compensating them for retiring their water rights or limiting their water use.
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On Tax Day, Bennet Urges IRS Not to Tax Future TABOR Payments

Following IRS’s Misclassification of TABOR Payments in February, Bennet Successfully Pushed IRS Not to Tax Payments for 2022

Apr 18, 2023
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, the chair of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, urged Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel not to tax future Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) revenue payments.
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Bennet, Hickenlooper File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Prevent Dangerous Ruling Threatening Access to Mifepristone From Taking Effect

253 Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Grant Emergency Relief From The United States Court of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit’s Partial Denial Of A Stay Pending Appeal, And Stay The Texas District Court Ruling In Its Entirety

Apr 17, 2023
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in support of the Biden administration’s appeal of a federal district court ruling that suspends the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) more than 20-year-old approval of mifepristone.
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Bennet, Hickenlooper File Amicus Brief Urging Appeals Court to Prevent Dangerous Ruling Threatening Access to Mifepristone From Taking Effect

240 Members of Congress Ask Fifth Circuit To Stay District Court Ruling That Threatens Access To Mifepristone Nationwide—And Access To All Manner Of Other FDA-Approved Drugs

Apr 11, 2023
Today, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in support of the Biden administration’s appeal of Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s ruling that suspends the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) more than 20-year-old approval of mifepristone.
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