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Follow VPR's statehouse coverage, featuring Pete Hirschfeld and Bob Kinzel in our Statehouse Bureau in Montpelier.

House Speaker, Outgoing Senate President On The Pandemic Legislative Session

Vermont Public | By Bob Kinzel,
Matthew F Smith
Published October 7, 2020 at 3:32 PM EDT
Outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, pictured working outside the State House during the pandemic.
Johnson photo by Rebecca Silbernagel
Outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, pictured working outside the State House during the pandemic. This hour, we talk about the legislative accomplishments of the past session and what's to come next year.

The Vermont Legislature just finished a very unusual session, with meetings and voting by video, a schedule that ran through September and landmark legislation passed on climate change, cannabis, police reform and more. This hour, we talk with outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson about the pandemic session and what could be in store for lawmakers when they return to the state house next year.

Our guests are:

  • Mitzi Johnson, Speaker of the House in the Vermont Legislature
  • Tim Ashe, outgoing Senate President Pro Tempore of the state Senate

Broadcast live on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Bob Kinzel
Bob Kinzel has been covering the Vermont Statehouse since 1981 — longer than any continuously serving member of the Legislature. With his wealth of institutional knowledge, he answers your questions on our series, "Ask Bob."
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Matt Smith worked for Vermont Public from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.
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