Honorable Peter Welch
U.S. Representative, Vermont, Democrat
Representative Welch, the at-large representative of Vermont, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2006. He serves on the Agriculture Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The following is excerpted from a February 16, 2012, statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. On February 1 of this year, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that American forces would step back from a combat role in Afghanistan as early as mid-2013. This is a year faster than had been announced only months previously. He also added that U.S. troops would move into…
