Washington, D.C. – The Vermont Congressional Delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) called on Deanne Criswell, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to address concerns raised by Vermont municipalities about high staff turnover and other bureaucratic inefficiencies within… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced, on a bipartisan basis, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL)’s bill, H.R. 5623, the Addressing Addiction After Disasters (AAAD) Act. The bill is co-lead by Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-02) and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01).
For the last two summers, Vermont was hit by devastating flooding and… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – As of this month, Rep. Balint has visited all 14 counties in Vermont this year — making this the second year in a row to mark the milestone and ensure Vermonters in every corner are heard and their needs are met.
“When I ran for Congress, I ran to serve every single Vermonter in every corner of our state. By touching all 14 counties and connecting in person,… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Vermont’s Congressional Delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) today welcomed $51 million in funding for Vermont from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Emergency Relief (ER) Program to reimburse Vermont for the costs of… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) announced $250,000 in federal funding has been released from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which will support the Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) and their work to advance cybersecurity research and… Read more »
Town of Rockingham, V.T. – Following advocacy by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large), the Town of Rockingham has been awarded $749,983 from the National Park Service to preserve the historic Rockingham Meeting House, a Vermont and New England landmark and rare eighteenth-century meeting house built… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Last week, in recognition of the 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Defend The Vote Action Fund, one of the nation’s leading pro-democracy organizations, released its 2024 Legislative Scorecard for the 118th Congress.
The Scorecard tracks the support of Members of Congress for bills that ensure our democracy works for everyone as well as… Read more »
Burlington, V.T. – Yesterday, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) was joined by Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD for a LGBTQI+ health equity community roundtable at the Vermont Pride Center.
As Assistant Secretary for Health, ADM Rachel Levine fights every day to improve the health and well-being of all Americans. She's working to help our nation… Read more »
Washington, D.C – Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) released the following statement announcing she will not attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress and instead join families of the hostages taken in the October 7 attack for counter programming:
“Netanyahu should not be welcomed here in the US Congress. He should be spending every waking moment working to bring the hostages home,… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – The Vermont Congressional Delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) this week called on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to quickly approve Vermont Governor Phil Scott’s request for a Secretarial Disaster Designation for the State of… Read more »
