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Welch joins Sens. Brown and Merkley to launch "Rebuilding America"
Rep. Peter Welch on Wednesday urged President Obama to use existing authority and already appropriated recovery funds to create a national home retrofit program. The initiative would seek to make five million homes more energy efficient - creating more than 600,000 jobs and saving homeowners $3 billion a year in energy bills.
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In the wake of allegations that Blackwater Worldwide engaged in the bribery of Iraqi officials following a September 2007 shooting incident, Rep. Peter Welch on Wednesday called for an investigation of the company - now called Xe Services - by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
According to a New York Times report,
Blackwater executives authorized $1 million in bribes to Iraqi Interior
Ministry officials in order to silence criticism of the 2007 incident,
during which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed.
Welch
called for the investigation from Pakistan, where he is taking part in
a delegation organized by the Oversight and Government Reform
Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs.
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With Rep. Peter Welch's support,
the U.S. House on Saturday night passed historic
legislation that will provide health care
stability and security to all Americans. After months of
debate, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) was
approved by a vote of 220
to 215.
The landmark legislation will
extend access to 36 million people, covering 96 percent of Americans. It will
end abusive insurance company practices like denying coverage to those with
preexisting conditions and dropping coverage of those who become
sick.
H.R. 3962 includes a public health
insurance option that will increase patient choice and drive
down prices. The bill moves
away from the fee-for-service model and focuses on improving patient
care.
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House sends economic recovery measures to President Obama for signature
Rep. Peter Welch on Thursday voted to provide an additional 14 weeks of
unemployment benefits to those hit hardest by the recession and to
extend the popular First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit until the end of
April.
The
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (H.R. 3548)
incorporates two provisions for which Welch has advocated in recent
months. At the Essex home of Lindsey and Matt Wignall this October,
Welch announced his support for legislation that would extend the
First-time Homebuyer tax credit, which provides an $8,000 tax credit to
qualifying families. Later that month, Welch sponsored legislation to
extend unemployment benefits to nearly every state - not just the 27 states covered in a previously-passed House bill.
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