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Vermont Sen. Peter Welch held a listening session about flood recovery at the Barre Social Club on Monday, July 7. Photo by Terry J. Allen. Marking the anniversary of the catastrophic floods of 2023 and 2024, Sen. Peter Welch has been barnstorming across Vermont to…

Vermont’s senators are sounding the alarm as a veterans outreach program serving service members and families across the Green Mountain State faces imminent shutdown due to lack of federal funding. “I have begun to sunset the program; we will only take on veteran issues if…

Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s U.S. senators are backing legislation meant to prohibit President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without first getting approval from Congress to do so — a possibility he has floated as fighting between Iran and…

Sen. Peter Welch speaks to the roundtable group. Photo: Cameron Smith on behalf of Axios. WASHINGTON – Improving drug access and affordability is a key health care policy issue with strong bipartisan support, health care experts said at an Axios roundtable on June 12. Axios'…

A group of 10 Democratic senators are urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to save the State Department’s human rights arm amid his sweeping reorganization effort. The State Department notified Congress last month that most offices in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) would be shuttered under…

Susan Walsh/Associated PressSen. Peter Welch joins Vermont Edition to discuss a recent meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa, the effects of the tariffs on Vermont, and Democrats’ struggle to regain a foothold in Washington. President Trump’s administration is urging the Senate to pass the…