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WEOC featured remarks from stand-up comedian Tina Friml, Rep. Becca Balint, and Sen. Peter Welch, followed by interactive skills-building workshops  RANDOLPH, VT – Saturday, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) hosted the annual Women’s Economic Opportunity Conference, which included interactive workshops on growing economic opportunity, cultivating new audiences, and improving…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) in introducing the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2024, legislation which would reauthorize critical reentry grant programs from the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday evening, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took to the Senate Floor to call for an end to the United States' support for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s war strategy that has not only caused massive death and destruction but has failed to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) led a group of senators advocating for the Biden Administration to finalize the mental health parity rules proposed last summer. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Assistant…

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representatives Becca Balint (D-VT-At Large), Summer Lee (D-PA-12), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, led 41 of their colleagues in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, introduced the Rural Recovery Act, legislation that will create a new program at U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD)  to provide RD…