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When Democratic U.S. Senator-Elect from Vermont Peter Welch steps up to his new office in January, he’ll be stepping into a rich legacy of political leaders from Windsor County who’ve served in the Senate. That distinguished lineage includes Sen. Jacob Collamer, a Republican lawyer from Woodstoc ...
Vermont elected only the second Democratic senator in its entire history on Tuesday as Rep. Peter Welch easily trounced Republican opponent Gerald Malloy.
A statue of President Truman replaced a sculpture of Alexander Hamilton in the Capitol rotunda this week, relegating the founding father to a basement with little-known figures.
Senate Republicans, unwilling to confront the substantive charges against Donald Trump, are claiming that the Constitution prohibits the trial of a former president. They are wrong. In addition to the vote already taken this year, the Senate previously affirmed in 1876 the constitutionality of trying an official who has left office, the former secretary of war, William W. Belknap, an appointee of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant. The Senate provided further precedent in the little-known trial of former federal judge West H. Humphreys in 1862.