The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), a group of 97 left wing lawmakers, urged President Joe Biden to declare a “climate emergency” and issue a series of bans on federal oil and gas leasing.
Federal COVID-19 relief funds and other factors have prompted Vermont lawmakers to propose a series of amendments to the state’s fiscal year 2022 budget that runs through June 30.
Dear legislators, it is now imperative that you sustain the Governor’s veto of S.4 (formerly S.30). Since 2013, a partisan “war” on lawful gun owning citizens has been waged in Montpelier. Please vote no to S.4 and S.30, the Veto Override Bill.
Stifled so far in their effort to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of S.30, this year’s gun control bill, the Vermont Senate Friday passed a replacement bill that one senator says is even less constitutional.
“We know that our border communities are culturally and economically inseparable, and we’re thrilled these communities will be able to more easily go about their daily lives as they did prior to the pandemic.”
Biden implemented the policy — which determined there was a “social cost” of continued carbon, nitrous oxide and methane emissions — via executive action days after he was sworn in 14 months ago.
The Legislature is authorizing that an unelected body design and implement a program that will have major economic consequences while having no idea what it will cost, how, or even if it can work.
H361, the Brattleboro charter change allowing 16 and 17 yer old voting and office holding, was approved by the State House of Representatives March 11 by a vote of 102-47.
At a candlelight vigil Tuesday, Gov. Phil Scott signed H.717, an act relating to providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine, and announced more than $640,000 of aid.
In the last 10 years under the Democratic supermajority, Vermont’s Legislature has developed an alarming desire to separate the decision making from voters — and it’s beginning to get out of hand.
Anti-hunting initiatives in Vermont’s Senate included bills to eliminate foothold trapping, ban the hunting of coyotes with dogs, and restructure the state’s administration of wildlife laws.
Even if homeowners enthusiastically embrace new, unproven heating systems and fuel sellers join the fight against climate change, the Clean Heat Standard will strafe one final group of Vermonters before its destruction is complete: taxpayers.