If Congressman Welch claims to take up the mantle of Sen. Flanders, then he must stand in the well of the House, and condemn his Democrat colleague, Rep. Schiff, for Schiff’s repeated false statements about the FISA process, Carter Page, and Republican Devin Nunes.
While media commentators across the political spectrum have tended to agree that this week’s congressional hearings with former special counselor Robert Mueller were a disaster for the Russian-interference-in-the-2016-election narrative, two top Vermont politicians are doubling down in support of Mueller’s testimony.
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., issued a statement Thursday calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, even as the U.S. House of Representatives — including the majority of his Democrat colleagues — voted against the measure by a 332-95 vote on Wednesday.
Will tariffs hurt Vermont in the short run and/or the long run? Time will tell. But what Vermonters can confidently predict is that many of our elected officials and the businesses that financially support them will not say so if the Trump tariffs work, after all.
Welch called the Green New Deal “a broad outline of ambitious goals” and said Congress over the next two years would be drafting legislation and conducting hearings to make progress toward those goals.
After helping vote down a continuing resolution Thursday, Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has more than a few Vermont heads spinning on whether he supports the government shutdown.
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., has been appointed to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, putting him in the middle of that committee’s probe into suspected ties between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
While national headlines focus on Vermont hosting the first transgender candidate for governor, the Green Mountain State remains the only state in the nation to have never had a woman as a federal representative. Vermonters now have a chance to change that.
What a refreshing admission from a politician. Our meddling actually made matters worse in pretty much every respect, and we should just stop.