WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, celebrated with new United States citizens, their families and loved ones, and Vermont leaders at a Naturalization Ceremony held in Barre. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Lanthier presided.
"We all know that every country has its challenges, but what all of us today-right here, -believe is that it is up to us, and it's within our power to aspire to the ideals of this great country that we live in and you, now, are going to be citizens of. It takes each of us, individually, to renew the promise of America-that all men and women are created equal. That each of us, if we put effort in, ca...