copyright the Chronicle November 2, 2016
by Joseph Gresser
BARTON — Peter Welch spent half of Monday in Orleans County. He dropped by the Chronicle for a morning conversation before heading up to Newport for a meeting with city officials and legislators.
The state’s lone Congressman is running for a sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives on both the Democratic and Republican lines, although he is a longtime Democrat.
In response to questions about the state of Congress, Mr. Welch said he’s worried about the Republicans.
“There’s an existential split in the Republican Party between the shutdown wing, and what I call the governing wing of the party,” he said.
The governing wing, he explained, “are conservatives who understand, at the end of the day, we have to pass budgets, and you can’t have a legislative body without compromises on legislation.”
Newport.
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