October 23, 2008
Bob Kinzel, VPR     Click here to listen

Montpelier, Vt. - (Host) Momentum is growing in Vermont for Congress to pass a second economic stimulus package in a lame duck session next month.

Thursday October 23, 2008
Bob Kinzel

Montpelier, VT
(Host) The major party candidates for the U-S House have sharp disagreements over the recently passed $700 billion bailout bill for the financial services industry.

NCPA Newswire
October 13, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, Va.- PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) is endorsing Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), a one-term incumbent representing Vermont, for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives.

October 13, 2008
By JOHN FLOWERS

MIDDLEBURY — U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said the $700 billion economic rescue plan passed by Congress on Oct. 3 is just the first step federal lawmakers and the next president will have to take in shoring up what has become a global economic crisis.

Times Argus Staff
October 12, 2008

SOUTH BURLINGTON — The president of the Vermont Business Roundtable praised U.S. Rep. Peter Welch and U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy recently for their votes in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that passed the House last week.

By Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
October 4, 2008

To govern is to choose," said President Kennedy. The choices are often imperfect. Such is the case today.

October 1, 2008
Rutland Herald Editorial

Rep. 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 with the conservatives to do nothing in that historic vote on Monday.

September 30, 2008

Rep. Peter Welch, D.Vt., issued this statement in opposition to the bailout. Welch voted no on H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008:

"The economic crisis we face is real. However, I voted against the bailout because it isn't paid for and because I don't believe it will work.

A freshman Democrat takes center stage in the cost debate

By Pail Fain
September 29, 2008
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By Louis Porter, Vermont Press Bureau
September 27, 2008

MONTPELIER -- There is some good news out of Washington for Vermonters who face a struggle to pay their heating bills this winter.

The U.S. Senate is expected to join the U.S. House in approving roughly double the funding for the Low Income Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP), perhaps as early as this weekend, to more than $5 billion.

LIHEAP is the federal program that helps Vermonters and others in cold weather states who can't pay for heating oil or other fuel to stay warm.