Published by admin on Sun, 01/17/2021 - 1:39pm
"The legislature is going to be a check on the executive branch," newly-elected House Speaker Chris Welch flatly declared to me during an interview the other day.
Welch was responding to a question I posed to him about his Jan. 13th inaugural address, when he asked not-so-rhetorically, "Why is it difficult to ensure that families' unemployment checks continue unabated and arrive on time so struggling families can feed their children? Why is that hard to grasp?"