Welch: No impeachment

HARTLAND -- He doesn't agree with them, but he'll listen to their arguments and pass those along to the U.S. House of Representatives.

So said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Saturday afternoon, following a tense meeting with impeachment proponents in the basement of Damon Hall in Hartland.

Since the Vermont House and Senate weighed in on impeachment last month, the political hot potato has been tossed to Welch, a first term Congressman who believes impeachment proceedings would divide the fragile Democratic majority and prolong the Iraq war..."

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