Today, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments for the GOP’s case to overturn the entire #ACA. Here’s what’s at stake for VTers: higher premiums, loss of Medicaid expansion, reopening of the Medicare “donut hole,” loss of federal protections for those with #PreExisting conditions. (1/4)
During Justice Barrett’s hearings, I shared stories of Vermonters who would be hurt if the #ACA were struck down…VTers such as Martha Richards, who depends on expanded Medicaid for access to health care. (2/4)
Despite Trump repeatedly claiming he’s relying on Justice Barrett to strike down the ACA, & despite the fact that she has only ever criticized the law as illegal, she refused to recuse herself today. Now a hyper-partisan Court will decide the fate of Americans’ healthcare. (3/4)
Vermonters and all Americans can listen to today’s SCOTUS oral arguments. Audio of the proceedings will be livestreamed on @cspan#SunshineInTheCourtroom (4/4)
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Days from an historic election, Republicans are doing everything they can to prevent Americans from participating in it. They’re waging an all-out war on voting in courts across the country. A THREAD:
Exhibit A: Rs in PA just suffered a setback at SCOTUS following their repeated efforts to prevent legitimately cast ballots postmarked by the election and received within 3 days of the election from being counted.
Exhibit B: Trump campaign trying to block NV from mailing absentee ballots to every registered voter in the middle of a global pandemic.
Senator Leahy, speaking on the Judiciary Committee just now: “I have served in the Senate for 46 years, a span that includes 20 Supreme Court nominations and 16 confirmation hearings. None – not one – looked anything like this one.
“We should not have had a nomination before Justice Ginsburg was even buried, while the nation was mourning her passing. We should not be holding a hearing just 16 days later, when this Committee has afforded itself three times as long to vet other modern nominees.
“We should not be holding a hearing 3 weeks from an election, when millions of Americans have already voted. Not when doing so requires that 1/2 of the Senate go back on their word, contradicting every argument they made about the American people needing a voice.
Another nice thing about driving home last week was that Marcelle and I saw Camel's Hump from the ferry crossing Lake Champlain, and then saw it from our fields at home in Vermont.
That is a view from home that we have savored and looked forward to since we were first married.
That is a view from home that we have savored and looked forward to since we were first married.
Mike was one of the three Marine guards who in 1961 had the duty of lowering the U.S. Flag over our Embassy in Havana.
In 2015, Mike and his fellow Marines – that same honor guard -- returned to Cuba with Secretary Kerry, Marcelle and me, carrying that same flag, to raise it again over our re-opened Embassy.
We had an important procedural vote at 1 am on Friday morning (earlier today) to get the Great American Outdoors Act closer to final passage.
I'm proud of the work I've done related to this to protect the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which has brought millions to Vermont to conserve lands in and around towns across Vermont.
I was struck by how quiet and peaceful the Capitol was as I walked to my office in the Capitol after voting.
Vermonters are receiving local products through the the federal Farmers to Families program that we pushed for, for the first time today at the Berlin Airport from 10AM-2PM.
Each household will receive: 2 gallons of milk, 2 boxes of meat, 1 box of fresh veggies, 1 box of @Cabot products and non-perishable food.
Thanks to the Abbey Group, the @VermontFoodbank, the @VTNationalGuard, the Healthy Roots Collaborative, Green Mountain Farm to School, Black River Produce, and local dairy processors including Cabot and Monument Farms for doing what you do best, taking care of Vermonters.