Vermont Senate

First Step Toward a People's Budget Passed by Vermont Senate Committee
April 24, 2012
The People's Budget Campaign in Vermont has successfully pushed to define the purpose of the state budget as addressing "the needs of the people of Vermont in a way that advances human dignity and equity." After constituents from across Vermont, mobilized by the Vermont Workers... Keep Reading »
Vermonters Succeed in Restoring Universality to Health Care Bill
May 4, 2011
Montpelier, VT -- Statehouse -- Members of the grassroots Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign and the VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project cheered on Tuesday, May 3, as the joint house senate committee voted to accept a reconciled version of the universal healthcare bill, H.202, which removed... Keep Reading »
Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Succeeds in Getting Anti-Immigrant Amendment Struck
May 3, 2011
After days of mobilization, protests and vigils by the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign, Vermont legislators agreed to remove from the universal health care bill a harmful amendment that would have excluded undocumented people from "universal" health care. The conference committee of... Keep Reading »
Universal Means Everyone! Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Fights Undocumented Immigrants' Exclusion
April 29, 2011
The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign, run by the Vermont Workers' Center, is engaged in an urgent struggle to remove a last-minute amendment from Vermont's health reform bill, which would exclude undocumented people - including dairy farmworkers - from the supposedly "universal"... Keep Reading »
Vermont Senate Passes Bill for Universal, Publicly Financed Health Care
April 27, 2011
On April 26, Vermont's Senate passed, by a majority of 21 to 9, a universal health care bill that would ultimately provide publicly financed health care to all residents. Since the House already approved a version of this bill, which originated in Governor Shumlin's office back in February, it... Keep Reading »
Vermont Campaign Urges Senators to Defeat Attacks Against Universal Health Care Bill
April 25, 2011
As the Vermont Senate is about to pass H.202, the state's universal health care bill, Healthcare Is a Human Right supporters are urging Senators not to accept any floor amendments that could weaken the bill. The Campaign has sent a letter to Senators asking them "to oppose any floor amendments... Keep Reading »
Human Right to Health Care Activists Demand Strengthening of Vermont's Reform Bill
April 18, 2011
The struggle in Vermont for a universal, publicly financed health reform bill is intensifying.  The Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign rallied at the Statehouse on Friday, April 15, to demand that Senators put the bill back on track, in line with the original intent to create a universal... Keep Reading »