Senator Leahy

Senator Leahy and Secretary Castro attend the grand opening of the Bright Street housing cooperative developed by Housing Vermont and the Champlain Housing Trust.  The co-op was developed with funding from federal housing programs championed by Leahy on the Senate Appropriations Committee, including HOME, the Community Development Block Grant program, and NeighborWorks America, and leverages over $7 million in federal low income housing tax credits.  Mayor Weinberger introduces the grand opening and we hear from a resident, representatives of Senator Sanders and Representative Welch's office, as well as Champlain Housing Trust and Housing Vermont.

U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will lead an hour-long panel discussion -- A Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform: New Approaches for Vermont and the Nation. Leahy and Booker are both at the core of a bipartisan movement on Capitol Hill to forge and enact long-overdue criminal justice reforms. Leahy is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over justice reform legislation.

Joining Senators Leahy and Booker will be these panelists:

            -- U.S. Attorney Eric Miller
            -- Governor Peter Shumlin
            -- Mayor Miro Weinberger
            -- Christine Longmore, Burlington Community Center and Burlington
                Police Commissioner
            -- Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan
            -- Emmet Helrich, Rapid Intervention Community Court
            -- Kyle Dodson, Burlington YMCA
            -- Vicky Smith, King Street Center