Press Releases

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today introduced a bill that aims to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings. The Better Buildings Act encourages tenants of...

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Tom Udall (D-NM) today reintroduced a constitutional amendment that would restore authority to Congress, individual states and the American people to regulate...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today pressed the U.S. House of Representatives to work quickly to pass a long-term reauthorization of the Farm Bill that will provide much-needed certainty for...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement on a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the bipartisan immigration bill being debated in the...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall urged the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security in a letter to review the need...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today issued the following statement in response to the wildfires burning throughout the state, including those in Black Forest, Rocky Mountain National Park,...

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall today congratulated 55 Colorado counties on receiving over $31.6 million under the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. The payments will be...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today welcomed the U.S. Forest Service’s mobilization of two Department of Defense C-130s equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems, known as MAFFS, to...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated six Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas and six more as contiguous...

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, welcomed the passage of the 2013 Farm Bill in the Senate today, which includes two measures to improve forest...