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Article: REP. WELCH SUPPORTS, HOUSE PASSES ECONOMIC STIMULUS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 26, 2008
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Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. (at large), has issued the following news release:
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) supported and the U.S. House passed an economic stimulus package that will boosts funding for state and community needs, including funding infrastructure improvements, extending unemployment benefits, and increasing the Medicaid reimbursement rate to the states.
"This targeted economic stimulus will create jobs and provides federal support for those Vermonters and Americans most in need and for our communities' most urgent challenges," said Welch. "In addition to successfully boosting heating assistance for this winter, this economic stimulus focuses resources where the community need is ...