Bill Includes Bennet Priorities to Improve Conservation Programs, Crop Insurance, Forest Health Committee Debate Scheduled to Begin Next Week The Senate Agriculture Committee today unveiled an updated draft of the 2013 Farm Bill and announced it would begin consideration of the bill next week. The bill includes several key prov...

Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) urged 17 Colorado community health centers to apply for funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services made available today to help uninsured patients enroll for affordable health insurance coverage. HHS is allocating $150 million — $3,009,204 for Colora...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today congratulated the U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) Congressman Frank Evans Document Distribution Center in Pueblo on achieving the milestone of distributing more than one billion consumer publications. “The Pueblo distribution center has worked for several decades to k...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated five Colorado counties in southern Colorado as disaster areas due to recent drought conditions. The designations make farmers and ranchers eligible for assistance from the Farm Service Agency. The five Colorado counties i...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet introduced a bill to provide a more stable flow of resources for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), which monitors animal-borne illnesses that pose significant threats to animal and public health, such as mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease. The Animal and Public Healt...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) announcement it will award contracts to five companies to provide a total of seven Next Generation air tankers for wildfire suppression. “While Colorado has enjoyed several surprise spring snowstorms that hav...

Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, Gov. John Hickenlooper and five of Colorado's members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urging it to select Colorado as one of six planned Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) testing sites. The bipartisan letter notes Colorado's "uniqu...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is urging Senate appropriators to support resources for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT), the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) programs and for wildfire prevention, suppression and mitigation efforts. In a letter late last week, Bennet wrote to Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) and Ranking Member Lisa Mu...

Six members of the Colorado Congressional delegation are urging Senate and House Agriculture Committee leaders to pass a five-year Farm Bill. In a letter today, the bipartisan group of Colorado members called the bill crucial for farmers, ranchers, and rural economies across the state. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and M...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet led 18 colleagues in urging the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture to strengthen conservation programs authorized in the Farm Bill. In a letter late last week, Bennet and colleagues wrote to the committee’s chairman, Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas and ranking member, Roy Blunt of ...