“There’s a lot of power in accepting, in acceptance,” Sen. Peter Welch said near the end of a Senate hearing in which swimmer Riley Gaines complained about having to share locker rooms with a biological male.
Vermont’s lone Congressperson has a minority seat on the influential House Judiciary Committee.
A Cherokee and U.S. senator from Oklahoma takes issue with a children’s book blaming white people for creating the concept of race.
“At a time when climate change is, by far, the most existential threat facing our country and the entire world I cannot, in good conscience, vote for a bill that makes it easier for fossil fuel companies to pollute and destroy the planet by fast-tracking the disastrous Mountain Valley Pipeline,” Sanders said.
“America should pay what it owes and stop allowing our economy to be held hostage to an extreme right-wing agenda.”
“It’s not taxpayer money, and it’s not a bailout,” Balint said on today’s Morning Drive program on WVMT.
“If there is a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, it must be 100 percent financed by Wall Street and large financial institutions,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
Neither Sen. Bernie Sanders nor then-Sen. Patrick Leahy supported a Senate bill requiring a vote on a WHO pandemic treaty critics say threatens U.S. national sovereignty.
Samuel Bankman-Fried and others agreed that he and his co-conspirators should contribute at least a million dollars to a super PAC that was supporting a candidate running for a United States Congressional seat and appeared to be affiliated with pro-LGBTQ issues, a new federal indictment says.
A Manchester man became the second Vermonter arrested for the January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol
Rep. Becca Balint joined almost every other Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives voting against a resolution condemning violence against churches and pro-life pregnancy clinics.
A famous alumnus delivers a huge grant to his Vermont alma mater – but taxpayers are paying for it.
Rep. Becca Balint has lost no time targeting the House rules changes, which she fears will further the MAGA agenda in the U.S. House.
Vermont’s two senators brought home a whopping $254 million of earmarked spending in last week’s $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
With just a fig leaf of religious protection language, a law enshrining gay marriage across the U.S. has been passed by Congress.
