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In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Code
Delay
Washington
Derail
Wink
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I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Class
Cutting
Demand
Favors
Tax Cuts
Tax
Cuts
Extension
Favor
Recession
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There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Class
Congress
Conscious
Middle Class
States
Strengthening
Legislator
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Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Casting
Congress
Favors
Majority
Members
Painful
Party
Debt Limit
Favor
Forcing
Historically
Limit
Minority
Votes
Whip
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We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Crisis
Department
Financial Crisis
London
Rate
Senior
Bank
Carefully
Department Of Justice
Investigate
Manipulating
Offered
Throughout
Urge
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The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
American Economy
Bills
Congress
Gun
Hair
Pay
Rhetoric
Heated
Hill
Holding
Trigger
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BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Clean
Disaster
People
Reckless
Responsibility
Week
Caused
Acknowledged
American People
Clean Up
Compensate
Conduct
Countless
Finally
Gulf
Victims
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One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Bills
Credit
Giving
Members
Nancy
Together
Views
Nancy Pelosi
Passed
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The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Energy Efficiency
Income
Proven
Real
Stars
Utility
Vermont
Generating
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Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Faith
Counterparts
Credit
Economy
Gop
Party
People
Play
Ready
Control
Predict
American
American People
Assure
Chicken
Nation
Democrats
Neither
Nor
Seriously
Takes
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Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Home
America
Climate Change
Contribution
Foreign Oil
National Security
Oil
Reliance
Buildings
Change Energy Climate
Homes
Increasing
Perpetuate
Uses
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If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Sister
Best Way
Brother
Father
Heard
Mother
Older Brother
Quiet
Shut Up
Voice
Best Mother Me
Best Father Me
Older
Lower
Shout
Tried
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To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Able
Entitled
Manipulation
Pension
People
Ripped
Extent
Funds
Individuals
Mortgages
Whoever
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For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Home
Accomplish
Boost
Economic Recovery
Lasting
Program
Recovery
Short Term
Stars
Barrier
Breaking
Generate
Upfront
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Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Cards
Fees
Ignored
Introduction
Merchants
Years
Years Ago
Banks
Increased
Leverage
Negotiate
Steadily
Swipe
Tried
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There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Common Ground
Disagree
Giving
Harder
Motivation
People
Attribute
Sooner
Quickly
Tendency
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The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Calling
Cooperation
Country
Debt
National Debt
Pragmatism
Solutions
Vermont
Applaud
Campaign
Citizen
Petition
Policymakers
Practical
Pressing
Reflects
Urging
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Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
American Family
Average
Creditors
Spending
Tackling
Average American
Stiff
Future Time Family
Deficits
Drawn
Family Future Time
In The Past
Incurred
Past Time
Threaten
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Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Congress
Cost
Federal Reserve
Fees
Ideas
Last Year
Law
No Idea
Processing
Reasonable
Transactions
Years
American Businesses
Businesses
Card
Charged
Passed
Proportional
Reserve
Swipe
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If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Bills
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Hundred
Misunderstanding
Pay
People
Significant
Spending
Thinking
Ceiling
Incurred
Obligations
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I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Mom
Bookstores
Coffee
Majority
Merchants
Shops
Stores
Thread
Together
Vermont
Barber
Businesses
Check
Coffee Shops
Conduct
Connect
Represent
Make Up
Rural
Small Businesses
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Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Constituents
Debt
Fewer
Last Night
Night
People
Social Security
Subsidies
Vermont
Years
Afford
Telephone
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Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Encouraging
Jobs
Home
Bills
Boost
China
Common
Common Sense
Construction
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Helping
Manufacturing
Stars
Afford
Idea
Star
Invest
Create
Economies
Local
Provide
Sense
While
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
America
Bills
Football
Honor
Political
Predictable
Rant
Surprise
Vote
Twitter
Ceiling
Charlie Sheen
Washington
Debating
Obligations
Pays
Raise
Sheen
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You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.
Peter Welch / U.s. Representative
Fighting
Hopeful
Thinking
Unemployed
Winning
Time Long Fighting
Liberal
Wins
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