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But Senate may try to cut CHS funding from budget Wednesday
By Guy Page
In two words, freshman Rep. Rob North (R-Ferrisburgh) explains why he tried Tuesday morning to repeal the Clean Heat Standard on the floor of the Vermont House of Representatives:
“The voters,” North told VDC in a cafeteria conversation hours later.
Tuesday’s non-vote on repealing the 2023 law to convert home heat from fossil fuels to electricity happened like this: When the House brought up a Senate bill to increase (from 15 to 25 kilowatts) the size of solar projects qualifying for streamlined registration, North proposed an amendment to repeal the Clean Heat Standard.
Amendments have to be ‘germane’ to the underlying bill.
The Senate bill would expedite solar power, a source of electricity. The Clean Heat Standard would expedite electrification of Vermont homes. Kind of connected, right?
Wrong, said House Speaker Jill Krowinski, who promptly ruled North’s proposed amendment non-germane. House rules allow a Speaker to do that. Attaching a gun control amendment to, say, a contractor fraud bill? Non-germane. Attaching a homeowner anti-fraud education program to the same bill? Germane.
North explained that voters urged him to repeal the unpopular Clean Heat Standard, which incentivizes home heat electrification at the expense of homeowners who burn fossil fuels. He promised he would try. North defeated longtime Democrat lawmaker and House Appropriations Chair Diane Lanphere. It was one of the biggest upsets in a statewide election that overturned the House supermajority.
The Clean Heat Standard only passed in 2023 after supporters promised a ‘checkback’ vote this session, the sooner the better. Holding their feet to the fire, North and almost every other Republican on January 9 co-sponsored H.16, “repealing the Affordable Heating Act.”
And they waited. January, February, and March passed.
Today, with April almost gone, H.16 continues to collect dust on the wall of the House Energy and Digital Technology Committee. Committee leadership told members early on that the CHS repeal bill would go nowhere. They’ve been true to their word.
Over in the Senate, Republicans sought a straight up-and-down CHS repeal vote. Despite some high-profile parliamentary maneuvering and committee discussion, repeal hasn’t happened in the Upper Chamber, either.
But tomorrow, the Senate could see a CHS repeal roll call vote, of sorts. Minority Leader Sen. Scott Beck (R-Caledonia) told VDC today he may try to “poke in” an amendment to strip CHS funding from the 2025-26 budget. If the amendment vote happens, and if the roll is called, voters will have a good idea where their senators stand on repealing the Clean Heat Standard.
Constituents may contact senators at the State House by phone at 802-828-2228 or by email (see below).
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Well done, Representative North!
Who’s surprised? And yes, that is a rhetorical question. Nothing has changed in Vermont. It is occupied and overrun by Communists.
Thank you so much Rep North for all your hard work for Vermonters. So grateful you are in there. Many blessings.
Call them what they are – insurrectionists and installed, belligerent occupiers. They refuse to listen to the People, refuse to acknowledge the People’s will, refuse to conduct their fudiciary and ethical duties to manage the People’s money prudently. Their Acts of ill-repute cause harm and insurmountable burden upon the People.
It is Agenda 2030 – the repackaged, rebranded economic dirigisme under the UN directives. The playbook is known – wash, rinse, repeat for control and dominance. Lucifer can’t create anything – just do overs.
I heard one opine within the backrooms years ago – the writing was seen on the wall per se – instead of correcting course – a decision was made to double down and let the country fall into it’s own cellar hole. From what is being witnessed today – such an inference is believable and not out of the realm of probability. Seems to me, the collective of humanity has one last chance to save itself and that chance is slipping away through woeful and willful ignorance.
This is a frontal assault, of which the Marxists want and can feed the propaganda people more red meat to keep us divided. They will say, “They don’t want to help the environment!” Look at what they are doing! And VTGOP is labeled as evil and the uniparty wins, we keep marching on the Agenda 2030 band wagon.
Want to know what exposes them?
1) Offer free car registration on any car over 10 years old that gets combined epa of 25 mpg plus. This helps the poor, the frugal, it’s recycling and good for the environment. They won’t go along with it, it will expose them, they want power and money, they could care less about the environment.
There is program, and bill after bill that could be sponsored, giving up none of the conservative values and exposing them for the frauds they are.
2) Want to really play games with their con? Demand equal pay for men and women, today this session, while they are in the majority…..it will expose the true lie and if there are any discrepancies they’ll get fixed. Then we’ll have peace, which is kryptonite for the uniparty. Push this bill hard. How can they not do it? They won’t do it because they want to propagate a lie and division between men and women.
We need to be wiser than snakes and more innocent than doves. Our current game plan isn’t working because most don’t even know what game is being played.