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22 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I was proud this afternoon to meet up with Vermonters from the Vermont National Guard who’ve been in Washington to protect the Capitol and our nation during this historic week. We are grateful for their service.

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13 Jan
If our democracy is to endure, and I believe it will, today must mark the beginning of the end of the dark undercurrent of insurrection fueled and exploited by President Trump. Read my comment on the President’s second impeachment here: leahy.senate.gov/press/comment-…
Pres. Trump has not simply failed to uphold his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, which itself would be sufficient to warrant impeachment and removal. He has emerged as the *greatest threat* to the Constitution and to American democracy in a generation.
I hope that Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans will stand with our constitutional republic, as did 10 Republicans in the House today. For the good of the country, he must lead his party in voting to convict Pres. Trump and to prevent him from holding future office.
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14 Dec 20
Today marks the eighth year anniversary since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. I am thinking of all the families that had someone taken from them on that terrible day.
I’ve always been inspired by how so many Sandy Hook parents channeled their grief and hardship to push for commonsense changes to our nation’s gun laws, to hopefully prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
With their support, as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013, I advanced 4 bills to reduce gun violence, including universal background check legislation. All were defeated on the Senate floor due to Republican opposition.
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10 Nov 20
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) Image
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)
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29 Oct 20
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.
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12 Oct 20
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.
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9 Jul 20
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. Image
That is a view from home that we have savored and looked forward to since we were first married. Image
That is a view from home that we have savored and looked forward to since we were first married. Image
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