Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today released the following statement on the state of abortion care and reproductive rights in America, four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade:  “The erosion of reproductive freedom in America didn’t happen overnight. In exchange…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ draft Farm Bill:  America’s agriculture policy is broken—farmers can’t afford to farm, families can’t put food on the table, and rural communities have been left behind. Farmers in Vermont and across the nation create an immense amount of wealth, but…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined U.S. Senators John Curtis (R-Idaho), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) in leading nine of their colleagues to introduce the Protecting Firefighters from Adverse Substances (PFAS) Alternatives Act of 2026, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to support the development of next-generation PFAS-free turnout gear to better protect firefighters from the dangers of their work. The PFAS…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Kennedy (R-La.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) in celebrating the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s advancement of their Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation and Obscured Foreign Financing (PAID OFF) Act. The Senators’ bipartisan…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Friday published an opinion piece in Fox News entitled: “Trump is leading us into another unnecessary war. This time it’s Cuba.” In his op-ed, Senator Welch highlights that President Trump is dragging the United States into another reckless war—first with Iran, and now…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today applauded the Senate’s advancement of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), which focuses on the root cause of rising housing costs by cutting red tape, unlocking housing supply, lowering…