Press Releases

Bennet Asks Key Administration Counterterrorism Nominees How Bin Laden's Death Will Affect Future Terrorist Financing

Also Looks Into How Terrorist Network Overlap Complicates Efforts to Prevent Flow of Funding

May 03, 2011
Washington, DC – Just days after American Forces launched a targeted assault that killed Osama Bin Laden, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet asked nominees for key counterterrorism posts in the Obama Administration how Bin Laden’s death would affect the flow of financing to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and how terro...
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Bennet Statement on Death of Osama bin Laden

May 02, 2011
Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on President Obama’s announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed: “Almost 10 years ago, extremist terrorists launched a vicious attack on our country that killed thousands of innocent men, women and children. Tonight, the fa...
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Bennet: Air Quality Cleanups of New Mexico Power Plants Will Improve Public Health, Economy of Southwest Colorado

Pens Letter to EPA Administrator Urging Agency to Move Forward with Proposals to Clean Up Four Corners Power Plants

Apr 27, 2011
Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today penned a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson urging the agency to move forward with proposals to clean up the Four Corners Power Plant and San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico. Specifically, the EPA’s proposals seek ...
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Bennet Statement on Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide

Apr 22, 2011
Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet made the following statement regarding the April 24 Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide. The genocide took place between 1915 and 1923 at the end of the Ottoman Empire: “Nearly a century after the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the waning days of t...
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Bennet: Partnership for Patients Builds on Colorado's Innovative Example

New Effort to Improve Quality, Reduce Cost of Health Care Modeled After Successful Colorado Model for Coordinated Care

Apr 21, 2011
Denver, CO – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement regarding today’s launch of the Partnership for Patients at the Children’s Hospital in Aurora. The effort includes a national community-based Care Transitions Program created from a bill engineered by Colorado U.S. Senator Michael B...
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Bennet Sends Letter to Administration in Support of DREAM Act Kids

Says Law Enforcement Resources Should Be Focused on Criminals and Not Young People Who Get into College

Apr 15, 2011
Washington, DC – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 21 fellow senators in a letter to President Obama in support of kids who fall under the DREAM Act. Bennet and his colleagues urged the President to use his authority to grant relief from deportation to young people eligible for the Development, Relief and Educatio...
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Bennet Enví­a Carta a la Administración en Apoyo de Jóvenes Elegibles para el DREAM Act

Dice Que Recursos para la Aplicación de la Ley Deben Enfocarse en Delincuentes y no en Jóvenes que son Aceptados a la Universidad

Apr 15, 2011
Washington, DC—Senador de Colorado Michael Bennet, se unió a 21 senadores en una carta escrita al Presidente Obama en apoyo de niños que caen bajo el DREAM Act. Bennet y sus colegas le pidieron al Presidente que utilizara su autoridad para conceder alivio de la deportación a los jóvenes elegibles p...
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Senators Bennet and Coburn Introduce Savings Bill to Advance Electronic Filing of W2 Forms

Bill would save taxpayers over $11 million annually

Apr 14, 2011
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) introduced a bill that could save taxpayers over $11 million annually by requiring employers who are filing W-2 forms with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to submit their employee W-2 forms electronically. In many spheres&md...
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