Senate education committee articles
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Senate Committee Votes 3-2 to Recommend Saunders as Education Secretary
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday voted to recommend Zoie Saunders to the full state Senate as Vermont’s next education secretary. The vote was 3-2. Committee chair Sen. Brian Campion (D-Bennington), Sen. Terry Williams (R-Rutland) and Sen. David Weeks (R-Rutland) backed Saunders. Sen. Nader Hashim (D-Windham) and Sen. Martine Gulick (D-Chittenden-Central) voted against the motion. The discussion and vote took less than five minutes. Hashim was the only senator who explained...
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Minnesota State Senate ethics committee to probe DFL senator’s burglary arrest
The committee is due to meet Tuesday afternoon to consider complaints against two sitting members of the Minnesota Senate
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Indicted senators will not face committee removals, other punishments
(The Center Square) – Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen is holding off on disciplinary action against Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern following their indictments in the 2020 elector case. Petersen said that due process will need to play out before he would take action, like removing the members from committee assignments. "The Senator and his colleagues in the Democrat party seem to have forgotten our citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty,...