Press Releases

Bennet Welcomes President Biden to Colorado

Bennet is in Washington Negotiating to Extend the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Secure Urgent Climate Action in the Build Back Better Budget

Sep 14, 2021
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement welcoming President Joe Biden to Colorado.
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Bennet, Hickenlooper Join Bipartisan Letter Pressing Mondelez International to Negotiate a Fair Contract With Workers’ Union

Roughly 1,000 BCTGM Workers Now on Strike in Colorado and Across the Country Following Pay, Benefit Cuts

Sep 14, 2021
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined a group of their colleagues in a letter to Dirk Van de Put, Chief Executive Officer of Mondelez International, urging him to oversee good-faith negotiations for a fair contract between the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) and Nabisco, which is owned by Mondelez.
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ICYMI: Bennet Pens Op-Ed on Historic $65 Billion Broadband Investment Based on His BRIDGE Act

Bennet: “We are on the verge of connecting every American to affordable, high-speed broadband. And if we succeed, we can take satisfaction in knowing that Colorado led the way.”

Sep 13, 2021
Last week, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet penned an op-ed in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel on the historic broadband investment included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which mirrors the bipartisan BRIDGE Act Bennet and U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced earlier this year.
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Bennet Applauds House Inclusion of CORE Act Provision to Protect the Thompson Divide in Reconciliation Bill

Provision Would Prohibit New Oil and Gas Development in Areas Important to Ranchers and Hunters and Anglers

Sep 10, 2021
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet applauded the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee for including a provision of his Colorado Outdoor Recreation & Economy (CORE) Act to protect the Thompson Divide in the House reconciliation bill.
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Bennet, Cornyn Call on Congress to Drastically Reimagine America’s Mental and Behavioral Health Care System

New White Paper Outlines Senators’ Bold Vision for Significantly Reforming Mental Health In America in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sep 09, 2021
Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), members of the Senate Finance Committee, released “A Bold Vision for America’s Mental Well-being,” a white paper outlining a new framework for reimagining and redesigning how mental and behavioral health care is delivered in the United States.
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“Historic Investment”: Bennet Applauds $40 Billion Investment in America’s Forests in House Ag Committee Budget Bill

Major Provisions Modeled After Bennet’s Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act

Sep 09, 2021
Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, released the statement below following the release of the House Agriculture Committee’s portion of the Build Back Better budget, which includes a historic $40 billion investment over the next decade in America’s forests.
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