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      <excerpt>...Vt.&#8212;U.S. Rep. Peter Welch will be meeting with business leaders in central Vermont in his fourth and final business round-table. Welch has been meeting with business leaders around the state to discuss obstacles to economic growth in Vermont and how t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...same as those community nursing homes.&quot; BENNINGTON -- Rep. Peter Welch has signed on as a co-sponsor to legislation that will help the Vermont Veterans Home receive more equitable reimbursement from the Department of Veterans Affairs for patient care. W</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...by the late 1990s and the debt started to come down. It is interesting that the similar PAYGO legislation, which U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, originally sponsored, has just passed Congress and is on President Obama&#8217;s desk. Now, if both sides in t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Indeed: Vermont Congressman Peter Welch (D) said, &amp;quot;It is only in their world where you can come within an eyelash of destroying the economy and then reward ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...an eyelash of destroying the economy and then reward yourself with what you call a 'modest' $9 million pay day,&amp;quot; said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.). Blankfein's award comes as Goldman has sought to ease public anger over pay practices. In December, it s</excerpt>
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Barack Obama at the White House last summer when the legislation was first introduced.
BENNINGTON -- Vermont Rep. Peter Welch joined fellow Democrats in hailing passage of &quot;pay-as-you-go&quot; legislation Thursday that is aimed at</excerpt>
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