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Apr 29 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Powerful words from #VT’s TAG MG Knight. When I spoke with him yesterday, I told him how proud I was. leahy.senate.gov/press/comment-…
TAG presents @VTNationalGuard’s Vermont Battle Flag to MSgt Fitzgerald (longest serving enlisted) and Airman 1st Class Gullo (the newest enlisted #VTANG member deploying).
MG Knight presents Blue Star banner to @VTNationalGuard Sgt Lucey and kids. SGT Lucey’s husband is being deployed, and she and her family continue to serve at home.
Col. Shevchik speaks to the members of @158FighterWing ready to deploy. @VTNationalGuard #proud

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The Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, VT, trains not only soldiers from the Active, Guard, and Reserves, but also members from every service, Federal agencies, and NATO Allies. Image
LTC Gagner (r) knows Mountain training is about moving and succeeding in difficult conditions and difficult terrain—it’s turning challenges like this wall behind me and MG Knight into opportunities. Image
In VT we have some of the best mountaineers in the Army and the world. My mother’s family had members of the famed Alpini and I know they would be as impressed as I am.
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Republicans blocked a bipartisan COVID package that would have provided more vaccines, tests, & treatments to Americans. They would rather hold this bill hostage to secure votes on partisan, unrelated policy matters than make Americans more safe from the next COVID surge/variant.
This is not the bill I would have written. The lack of any funding to support a global vaccination campaign is shortsighted & dangerous. A virus does not recognize our borders. But that is the result of a bipartisan negotiation. The Senate should have advanced this bill today.
We need to fund testing, therapeutics, & vaccinations, NOW. We cannot wait for the next wave or a new variant. I strongly support this agreement, and I will work to obtain funding to stop the virus from spreading and mutating overseas, and attacking Americans here at home.
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Feb 17
Yesterday the Senate passed the Health Care for Burn Pits Veterans Act, led by my friends @SenatorTester and @JerryMoran. Huge step forward, that I am proud to support because it makes a difference now while we keep working for more.
Veterans in Vermont and @VTNationalGuard have died of rare #cancer after service exposure to burn pits. I’m proud to co-sponsor Health Care for Burn Pits Veterans Act which strengthens toxic exposure research and helps @DeptVetAffairs understand links btwn exposure and illness.
The Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act expands access to @DeptVetAffairs health care to all Post-9/11 combat veterans and helps ensure #burnpit exposure-related illnesses get early identification and treatment.
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Feb 9
Nine years ago, I was proud to lead the bipartisan efforts to reauthorize and strengthen the historic Violence Against Women Act.
And when that authorization lapsed three years ago, I immediately set to work with others in the Senate to draft a new authorization to support victims of violence.
Today, those efforts are a reality, and we have introduced the bipartisan Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Victims of domestic and sexual violence need our support, now.
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Dec 18, 2021
We’re #VermontProud that the Senate confirmed @Middlebury native Elizabeth Rosenberg in our marathon session this morning, at 2a.m.
Her skills and experience and knowledge are needed right now in a key role at the Treasury Department to help protect our national security and crack down on terrorists and other financial criminals.
I was proud to introduce her at her Senate confirmation hearing this summer. I’ve known her since I sponsored her to be a Senate Page many years ago.
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Oct 26, 2021
Another #BatWeek sundown is here. There are 9 species of bats in #VT, and 2 are threatened and endangered species—The Indiana bat and the northern long-eared bat.
Other bats in Vermont are the little brown bat, tricolored bat, eastern small-footed bat, silver-haired bat, hoary bat, and the eastern red bat.
Bats provide important pest suppression services to Vermont farmers. A 2011 study estimates that the value of bats to Vermont’s agricultural industry is $32.1 million each year. @USFWS
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