Sen. Welch returns to Vt. for first full week as Senator

RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) -A brand new session has began in D.C. and Vermont’s congressional delegation is already busy at work. After days of unrest, new members of the Home of Representatives had been sworn in, which makes at this time Becca Balint’s first Monday as a congresswoman.

The Senate didn’t have the identical delay with now-Senator Peter Welch settling into his new position.

Welch is spending his first full week within the workplace right here in Vermont, beginning with an occasion in Rutland at this time.

Senator Welch stated he’ll welcome U.S. Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Xavier Becerra to Rutland Pharmacy. Welch and Becerra are planning a roundtable on the opioid disaster in Vermont with different native healthcare leaders and advocates.

Welch’s tour doesn’t cease there. He plans to be in St. Albans on Wednesday for a dialogue with dairy farmers, then a tour of an natural dairy farm adopted by a go to with college students on the St. Albans Metropolis Faculty.

Friday he’s planning to host a City Corridor in White River Junction to listen to straight from Vermonters concerning the challenges their communities are dealing with.

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