Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Peter Welch [D, VT-0]

Peter Welch votes for crisis plan

2008-10-04T00:00:00Z

...he considered it "deeply flawed," U.S. Rep. Peter Welch was among 263 members who voted Friday afternoon to pass a roughly $700 billion bill designed to bail out the financial industry and ease the economic crisis sapping the national economy. "Passing

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Vermont's congressman to vote yes on bailout

2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

...Vt.—After voting no on a $700 billion financial industry bailout bill Monday, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch voted in support of a revamped version Friday, saying improved taxpayer safeguards and the dire need for government intervention made it imperative to

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Vote yes

2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

...Rep. Peter Welch faces a vote that he will have to live with for the rest of his career. He should vote yes. The House is expected to vote today on the bailout plan passed by the Senate on Wednesday. On Thursday Welch returned to Washington from Vermont

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Congressmen Flooded With Calls From Angry Constituents

2008-10-01T00:00:00Z

...constituents. The majority, about 85 percent, of callers expressed their opposition to a bailout plan. In Washington, Rep. Peter Welch's communications director, Andrew Savage, said the House of Representatives Web site has been overwhelmed and the volu

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A new era

2008-10-01T00:00:00Z

...Peter Welch may not get all he wants from a new bailout package, but it appears the nation is heading in his direction. For all but diehard conservatives, doing nothing in the present crisis is not an option. Yet Welch and some fellow liberals voted wit

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Vermont bankers call for calm

2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

...Lets just be patient. Lets not do anything brash. Lets see how things sugar off, said Union Bank President Ken Gibbons. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., was one of the more than 200 members of Congress to vote against the bailout because, he said in a statemen

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Vermont bankers call for calm

2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Deadlock

2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

...$700 billion financial bailout bill proposed by President Bush failed, 205-228, on Monday, and Rep. Peter Welch was one of those who voted against it. It was a vote of enormous consequence, and leaders in Washington were struggling to find a response. W

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Peter Welch: 'No confidence in Paulson plan'

2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

...stocks dropping rapidly. "I do believe we have a serious crisis. The excesses on Wall Street can jeopardize us on Main Street," Welch said. But the proposal backed by Bush and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is not a workable solution because it i

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Welch bucks leadership on bailout

2008-09-29T00:00:00Z

...later this week, the House leadership will be looking to switch "about 12 or 13 vote," he said. "I would expect that Peter Welch is right toward the top of that list, as far as vote-switching goes," Davis said. He said he wouldn't be surprised if Pelosi

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More must be done in cancer fight

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bernard Sanders and Congressman Peter Welch and ask them to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the long-overdue authority to regulate tobacco ...

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Constance Dougherty, Aidan Oâ€™Connor

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bride, 32, works in Washington as a legislative director and counsel for Representative Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat. She graduated from Notre Dame. ...

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My Turn: Blame Democrats for high prices

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., sponsored HR.6022 to stop adding to our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Per Welch, "taking 70000 barrels of oil off the market each ...

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VT Cong. Delegation Undecided on Bailout

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said that they needed to see the details of the proposal but said doing nothing is unlikely.

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LIHEAP funds to double with Senate approval

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

...or less keeps poorer Vermonters where they were last year because of increases in need and higher fuel costs, said U.S. Rep. Peter Welch. The Senate version of the bill has more than 50 co-sponsors and is very likely to pass. "This has been a long, long

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Congressional delegation undecided on bailout plan

2008-09-27T00:00:00Z

...late Friday, more than 30,000 people agreed, signing an online petition on his Web site. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said that they needed to see the details of the proposal but said doing nothing is unlikely. Copyright 2008

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Delegation waiting for specifics

2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

Patrick Leahy and Bernard Sanders and US Rep. Peter Welch have not yet made up their minds completely about whether they will vote for the proposal, ...

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Vermonters Sharing Outrage Over Bailout Plan

2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

...vocal against the $700 billion Bush administration plan to buy bad mortgage debt from struggling investment banks. Rep. Peter Welch and Sen. Patrick Leahy have also been flooded with several thousand e-mails from Vermonters, aides said, though neither o

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Vermont expected to get $35 million in heating aid

2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

...real people who could die without heat, not Wall Street executives who are going to lose their golden parachutes." Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who wrote the House bill to increase heating aid, said he is relieved that the funding appears to be secure. Howe

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Rep. Welch's spokesman leaving

2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

...Rep. Peter Welch's spokesperson will step down next month to take a job with an environmental organization based in Washington, D.C. Andrew Savage has served as Welch's spokesperson for nearly two years since the lawmaker was elected to the U.S. Congres

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