Gee, thanks, Washington

Vermont’s junior senator, [Senator Peter Welch,] who spent more than a dozen years in the state Senate — including stints as president pro tempore — paid a visit to the Statehouse Thursday to give his take to the Senate Appropriations Committee on, well, everything going on down in Washington, D.C. “There’s going to be a level of uncertainty that [state officials are] just going to have to deal with,” [Sen. Welch] said in response to a question from [a state senator]. “We can give you the information we have as soon as we have it — but it’s not as soon as you need it.”

— “Familiar Face,” VTDigger‘s “Final Reading” newsletter


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