Press Release

BURLINGTON, VT – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, introduced the Rural Opportunities and Revitalization Act, legislation to empower the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS) to carry out research,…

Senate Judiciary Committee Advanced Nomination with a Bipartisan Vote of 13 to 7 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the nomination of Mary Kay Lanthier, of Orwell, Vermont, to be the next District Court judge for the District of Vermont. President Biden…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Vermont Congressional Delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) this week reiterated their call to majority, minority, and Appropriations Committee leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives to pass supplemental disaster recovery and…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement on the release of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. Mr. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter falsely convicted of espionage in a sham trial and sentenced to serve in a penal colony,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, released the following statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of the next steps in Vermont’s Internet for All program. Vermont will receive…

Bill would update decades-old Medicare spending index that triggers harmful cuts to rural health care providers  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Angus King (I-Maine), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) are leading efforts to protect access to…