Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing this week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to help Vermont farmers impacted by natural disasters like this summer’s brutal flooding and May freeze. He discussed the need to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) in sending a letter to Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, on the imperative of urgently providing humanitarian aid in Gaza. The…

 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) pressed U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters on why Vermont remains one of only two states without a Residential Reentry Center (RRC), despite unanimous support for an RRC from…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the COLAs Don’t Count Act, and the Student Loan Deduction Act of 2024, bills that would exempt annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) and student loan payments from impacting the benefits of the families and individuals who…

BURLINGTON, VT – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement in advance of Saturday’s observance of the second anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022:  “Since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in February 2022, and going back to the illegal annexation of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) along with 30 of their colleagues are calling on Senate leaders to advance a legislative solution to support access to Medicare services by ensuring health care providers who treat Medicare patients are adequately compensated for the care…