Daniel Davis

Flooding in Montpelier July 2023 (file) | Vermont Agency Of Agriculture/Vermont Agency Of Agriculture In the wake of catastrophic disasters in each of their states in 2023, two Democratic U.S. Senators are calling on their peers to pass long-term relief funding. In July 2023, Vermont…

UNITED STATES – APRIL 16: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sign in Washington. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) While it’s true that some things get better with age, the United States’ aging transmission infrastructure is not one of them. Updated transmission infrastructure…

Vermont's Congressional delegation is not happy with the job the Federal Emergency Management Response Agency did in the wake of the historic flooding in Vermont in July 2023. The Great Vermont Flood of 2023, as the National Weather Service dubbed it, took two lives. More than 350 family…

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., a former public defender, led a letter Thursday to Senate appropriators calling for the federal public defender program to receive its full funding request for the upcoming fiscal year.  Twenty-five Democrats, including Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Chamber of Progress recently released a new study analyzing the full costs of a lapse in Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) funding. The study found that lower-income families would not only lose access to high-speed internet but also to $10 billion in work…