Press Releases
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Ben Kinsley, who served as our office intern this legislative session, will graduate from Norwich University this month and lives in Williston. He offered this perspective on his experience in the State House.
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March 28, 2012 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott continued his Vermont Everyday Jobs tour today, spending a morning making “house calls” with Dr. Alison Cornwall, a large-animal veterinarian working in Central Vermont.
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March 26, 2012 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott released the following op-ed piece today about the role of state government’s regulatory agencies.
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Feb. 15, 2012 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott continued his Vermont Everyday Jobs tour yesterday, celebrating the Vermont entrepreneurial “spirit” by working at Smugglers’ Notch Distillery in Jeffersonville.
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Jan. 26, 2012 -- A bipartisan group of Senate leaders introduced legislation today to provide economic relief for Vermonters impacted by Tropical Storm Irene.
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Jan. 18, 2012 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott released the following op-ed piece today in support of PR3, a proposed constitutional amendment that would change the term of office for statewide officers to four years.
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Jan. 9, 2012 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott is “honored and humbled” by the hundreds of Vermonters who reached out to him over the weekend after his business, DuBois Construction of Middlesex, burned in a massive fire on Friday night.
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Dec. 29, 2011 -- The post-Irene mobile home de-construction team assembled by Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller reported today that they removed 68 homes in six parks around the state, completing the first phase of their work in early December.
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Nov. 17, 2011 -- The mobile home de-construction team headed by Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller gathered this morning at Weston's Park in Berlin for the delivery of the first new mobile home since the flood.
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The mobile home de-construction team assembled by Lt. Gov. Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller finished up work at Weston’s Mobile Home Park earlier this week, and the first new mobile home will be delivered to the park tomorrow.
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Nov. 8, 2011 -- For Lt. Governor Phil Scott, yesterday's "Vermont Everyday Job" working with the Burlington Fire Department was an eye-opening experience - especially the part of the day where he couldn't see a thing.
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Nov. 1, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott is now accepting applications for a legislative-session internship in his State House office.
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Oct. 31, 2011 -- The post-Irene mobile home demolition and removal task force, organized by Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller, started work early this morning at Weston's Mobile Home Park.
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The post-Irene mobile home demolition and removal task force, organized by Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller, will hold a press briefing and photo op on Monday at 1:30 pm at Weston's Mobile Home Park in Berlin.
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October 21, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller, who have been leading a task force to organize coordinated and affordable removal of flood-damaged mobile homes from mobile home parks, announced a work plan for that project, as well as some unexpected good news: thanks to successful fundraising, the cost to each individual homeowner will be less than anticipated.
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October 18, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott announced the dates for this year's Wheels for Warmth tire recycling and resale event.
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October 14, 2011 -- Yesterday, Lt. Governor Phil Scott continued his "Vermont Everyday Jobs" tour, installing new railroad ties along the Clarendon-Pittsford Railroad Line in Rutland.
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October 4, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott will work with the Vermont Foodbank tomorrow as part of his "Vermont Everyday Jobs" initiative. Scott will help distribute nearly 200 food boxes to participants in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
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October 3, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott accepted a $25,000 donation this morning from Aubuchon Hardware to support mobile home owners affected by Tropical Storm Irene.
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September 29, 2011 -- In between meetings at the State House yesterday, Lt. Governor Phil Scott met with a couple of tour groups to thank them for spending their vacation in Vermont.
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September 22, 2011 -- A group of top state officials announced today that they have a plan to remove and dispose of mobile homes that were ruined by flooding in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.
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September 21, 2011 -- ‘Vermont Strong’ is the battle cry that has rallied thousands of Vermonters, and volunteers from around the country, together to confront the impacts of Tropical Storm Irene. Now, in the three weeks since the storm, it has come to define the resilience and unity of a small, rural state as it bounces back and opens its doors for one of the most important tourism seasons of the year.
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September 2, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott announced today that he would not be driving his #14 stock car in the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road this Sunday.
“Given the devastation across the state after Hurricane Irene, I need to focus my energies on helping Vermonters recover,” Scott said.
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August 30, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott has spent the last two days in flood-damaged areas across Central and Southern Vermont, and the damage he has observed is “devastating.”
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August 9, 2011 -- Lt. Governor Phil Scott was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA). NLGA is the professional association for the officeholders first in line of succession to the governor in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.
