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Political notes from Free Press staff writers Terri Hallenbeck, Sam Hemingway and Nancy Remsen


11.16.2006

 

Mr. Welch goes to Washington

Vermont's congressman-elect, Peter Welch, cast his first ballots Thursday, helping elect Rep. Steny Hoyer as House majority leader and Nancy Pelosi as speaker.

Welch, speaking shortly after the vote while munching on lunch with his fellow Democrats, said the atmosphere was not divisive the way some are portraying the vote. Hoyer was chosen over Rep. John Murtha, who was Pelosi's choice.

"The reality is the caucus concluded there's room for both," Welch said.

Murtha, he said, will take the role of party spokesman on the war in Iraq, the issue that won him attention in the last year, while Hoyer is the party leader.

More from Welch in Friday's paper.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
when are you all going to add a blog roll with links to other blogs?

it's a simple thing but if you think about blogging as a community ... you wouldn't get nearly as many readers if your links were not posted at Green Mountain Daily and Freyneland ... it's only right that you should recipricate.
 
There is a blog roll, it's on the right hand side of the page, right under the ads. It lists every decent political blog in Vermont.
 
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