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Peter Welch Looks At What's Ahead For The House After A Blue Wave

Congressman Peter Welch won re-election last week for his seventh term in the U.S. House.
Angela Evancie
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Congressman Peter Welch won re-election last week for his seventh term in the U.S. House.

An azure wave did occur last Tuesday, when the Democrats took back control of the House in the midterm elections. Rep. Peter Welch will return to Washington in January as part of that Democratic majority. He joins us to discuss what that shift in power will mean.

Welch has long been a proponent of a bi-partisan approach in Congress and we'll get his thoughts on how the change in leadership will affect that and what his role will be in the new Congress.

Broadcast on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.
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