Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement on the outline of increased flexibility and regulatory relief for states from certain No Child Left Behind (NCLB) regulations and requirements. “As a former Superintendent, I have been on the receiving end of No Child Left B...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today met with more than 80 Colorado veterans from the Western Slope Honor Flight at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. “It was great to meet with so many Colorado veterans who served our country so honorably in World War II,” said Bennet. &ldquo...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today released the following statement on news that Colorado’s agricultural exports increased 20 percent to $718 million in the first seven months of 2011 over last year’s exports: “The continuing growth of...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement after the Pentagon officially ended the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy: “Finally, the backwards-looking policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ has been relegated to the dust...

Washington, DC – On the heels of President Obama signing the America Invents Act into law, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today renewed their push for a satellite Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Denver to help boost Colorado’s economy by creating jobs and encouraging innovation. In a letter t...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today released the following statement on President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction package: “Coloradans in my town hall meetings have expressed their frustration that Washington is not leading on jobs or deficit reduction. In fact, the solution to both is ...

Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, joined Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator John Thune (R-SD) and six others to introduce a bipartisan bill that will spur new agricultural research, leveraging private dollar...

Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement today after President Obama signed the America Invents Act into law. The bill passed the Senate last week with broad bipartisan support. “The signing of this bill is great news for our country’s economy—and for Colorado, whe...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement regarding an announcement made today by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that the Agency has selected the design of a new Space Launch System (SLS). Once completed, the SLS will carry human crews beyond low Earth orbit in the Orion Multi-Pur...

Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today encouraged the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to seek a comprehensive debt reduction agreement that includes discretionary spending cuts, entitlement changes and tax reform. More than one third of the Senate joined Bennet in lending their support to t...