Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 36 of his colleagues in a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) requesting that he support the funding amount and proposed funding flexibility for state and local governments that was included in the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (HEROES) Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) announced 23 new cosponsors have signed on to their Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in Twenty-twenty (RESTART) Act for a total of 33 cosponsors.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet applauded House passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, historic public lands legislation to permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million and begin to address the $19 billion public lands maintenance backlog.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D) and Ron Wyden (D), U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and a group of their U.S. Senate colleagues in announcing the introduction of the Preventing Authoritarian Policing Tactics on America’s Streets Act.

Following President Donald Trump’s formal nomination of anti-public lands activist William Perry Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today joined his Western colleagues in calling for an expedited Senate confirmation hearing for Pendley, who was installed as the de facto acting director of the agency nearly a year ago without a confirmation hearing or vote.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), along with U.S. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), introduced the National Emergency Student Vote Act to help college students nationwide exercise their right to vote in the 2020 elections, even as millions are displaced from campus due to the pandemic.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act as an amendment to the House version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Last week, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet traveled across Colorado, meeting with public health officials and health care workers, small business owners, elected officials, and community leaders to discuss Colorado’s priorities as the state responds to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and 45 of his Democratic Senate colleagues wrote to Vice President Mike Pence and Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, urging the Trump Administration to reverse recent changes requiring hospitals to report data to a new system set up by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) instead of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), which is run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and has been in use for over a decade.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is organizing a Day of Action in support of the RESTART Act, his bill with U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) — the only bipartisan proposal of its kind — to support the small- and mid-sized businesses most affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).