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Senate Republicans block resolution to prohibit Trump Administration from weaponizing U.S. military against American citizens  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spoke in support of legislation led by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to reform and right-size the Insurrection Act, an emergency, near-wartime authority…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) today celebrated the advancement of their bipartisan Foreign Robocall Elimination Act, legislation that would bring together government and private sector experts to find additional means of eliminating unlawful robocalls placed into the U.S.…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Finance Committee members Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), alongside Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the No Big Blockbuster Bailouts Act (NOBBBA), a bill to reverse Republicans’ policies in the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’…

ORWELL, VT — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined Vermont farmers, state officials, and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) at Lazy Dog Farm in Orwell to hear from…

ORWELL, VT — On Friday, October 17th at 11:00 AM, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, will join Addison County farmers and legislators at Lazy Dog Farm in Orwell for a drought-impact tour…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Day 16 of the Republicans’ government shutdown to discuss how spikes…