Daniel Davis

BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) celebrates Vermont’s Team USA Olympians—Billy Bender, Ilona Maher, and Elle Purrier St. Pierre—as the 2024 Summer Olympic Games conclude and our Olympians return home. Bender, Maher, and St. Pierre competed in the summer Olympic Games, which were…

Vermont and National Health Care Leaders Voice Support for the Physician Fee Stabilization Act, a bill to help rural health care providers BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) announced support from national health organizations for their bipartisan Physician Fee Stabilization…

Sen. Peter Welch tours flood devastation on Red Village Road on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 (Photos by Paul Hayes) LYNDON — Federal officials this week promised to fix the broken Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster aid process. Touring flood-damaged east Lyndon on Monday, Sen.…

'All of us understand the importance of [ACP], how it benefits folks in every single state,' Welch said. WASHINGTON, July 31, 2024 – A Senate committee Wednesday voted to provide the Affordable Connectivity Program with $7 billion in new funding, but Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, indicated…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Committee advanced Senator Peter Welch’s (D-Vt.) amendment to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program with $7 billion, as requested in his bicameral, bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.  “After weeks of deadlock, we finally have progress on the effort to…