Chip In the News

Rep. Chip Conquest to Run for Vermont House Speaker
August 4, 2016
Rep. Chip Conquest (D-Newbury) announced this week he will run for House speaker if he wins reelection to his House seat in November. Conquest, a 54-year-old farmer and carpenter who has never served ...Read More

The Road to Adjournment Is Always Bumpy
May 5, 2016
With dozens of bills still in play Thursday and the deadline for a Saturday adjournment looming, talks on some priority legislation turned testy, as lawmakers abandoned pleasantries and pressed their ...Read More

House Douses Marijuana Legalization, Cultivation
May 2, 2016
What had been less clear until Tuesday’s vote was whether the House would support a scaled-back measure to remove criminal penalties for cultivation and possession of two pot plants. That went down by...Read More