Press Releases

Bennet: Good Leadership Can Turn Around Our Failing Schools

Bennet Pushing for Investment in Training Centers to Support Principals in Low-Performing Schools

Apr 16, 2010
Washington, DC -Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado and former Superintendent of Denver Public Schools, is urging the Senate to include programs to support and grow school leaders to turn schools around in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Bennet, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ...
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Bennet Honors Colorado Liberator at National Days of Remembrance Ceremony in U.S. Capitol Rotunda

Lakewood Resident Among Historic Gathering of 120 World War II Veterans

Apr 15, 2010
Washington, DC -Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today paid tribute to World War II veterans who helped liberate Nazi concentration camps during a National Days of Remembrance Ceremony organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of the war. Among the 120 WWII v...
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Udall, Bennet Ask President to Explain, Re-evaluate Cut of Constellation Program

U.S. Senators' Letter Regarding President Obama's NASA Budget Emphasizes Constellation's Role in Innovation, Security, Jobs

Apr 12, 2010
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet met with NASA Administrator, General Charlie Bolden, to urge President Obama to re-evaluate his proposed cancellation of the Constellation program. While expressing support for certain aspects of NASA's funding in the proposed 2011 federal budget, both Senators ...
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Bennet Raises the Bar on Transparency and Accountability

Apr 09, 2010
To Increase Transparency, Bennet Puts All Funding Requests He Both Receives and Submits Online for Coloradans to View Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today made good on his promise to make public any earmark requests received by his office, including those not submitted to the Senate Appropriations Com...
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Bennet Makes Push to Help Colorado Families Facing Foreclosure

In a Letter to Treasury Department, Bennet Says Increased Transparency and a New Appeals Process Would Prevent Unnecessary Foreclosures on Families' Homes

Apr 07, 2010
Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today sent a letter encouraging the U.S. Treasury Department to make common-sense improvements to its mortgage loan modification program that would help Coloradans from losing their homes to foreclosure. The Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) provides assistance ...
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Bennet: Coloradans' Ideas Will Make Washington Work Better for the People

In Video Response, Bennet Thanks Coloradans for Their Feedback on the "Plan for Washington Reform"?

Apr 01, 2010
Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, today released a video thanking Coloradans for their feedback to his Plan for Washington Reform and promising to continue to fight to get Washington working for Coloradans and all Americans. In the video, Bennet says, "After just a year in Washington, it is clear that th...
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Bennet: Historic Investment in Childhood Nutrition Will Reduce Childhood Hunger and Give Colorado Kids Access to Healthy Meals at School

Works to further strengthen child nutrition bill, enhancing technical assistance and creating State Childhood Hunger Challenge Grants to spur innovative efforts to reduce hunger

Mar 24, 2010
Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado and member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the committee's bipartisan passage of a $4.5 billion investment in child nutrition over 10 years. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 will reduce childhood hunger, promote heal...
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Bennet Supports and Improves Wall Street Reform

Mar 23, 2010
Banking Committee Adopts Bennet Amendments Strengthening Investor Protections Bennet Continues to Push for Strong Reform Denver, CO - After months of working in the Senate Banking and Urban Affairs Committee to improve the Wall Street reform bill to better protect consumers and provide better accountability over abusive banks, ...
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