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Thomas Chittenden: “The governor's attempt to establish new eligibility criteria…”

Featuring: Thomas Chittenden, Democratic | Vermont State Senate, Chittenden Southeast

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Vermont Senate Session on Budget Adjustments and Legislative Bills

Published | Video Starts at 18:54

… chambers of the General assembly and more recently the passage of H.489 by the House of Representatives and consideration by the Senate this week. And here is the closing sentence. The governor's attempt to establish new eligibility criteria governing access to emergency housing... represents an unconstitutional consolidation of power. an overlap of authority so complete as to constitute an unconstitutional consolidation of power. Now, in Washington at this moment, we are seeing executive orders issued at a blistering rate, at a rate designed to jam the machinery of government. (18:54–19:16)

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Asserts that the governor's executive order represents an unconstitutional consolidation of power.

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