Press Release

WASHINGTON – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today in sending a letter to President Biden expressing serious concern about what the invasion and potential occupation of Gaza could mean, both in terms of the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) wrote a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement federal building energy efficiency requirements included in the Energy Act of 2020 (EA2020) as quickly…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a bipartisan push led by Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and 13 of his Senate colleagues, the Department of Commerce and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program would be expanded to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) this week joined Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler for a conversation on the future of digital policy and the need for Congress to establish an independent agency to provide oversight of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the last day of ‘Bat Week’, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) celebrated the Senate passage of their resolution supporting the federal designation of ‘Bat Week’ for the week of October 24 to October 31, to emphasize the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) issued the following statement in reaction to the Department of Energy’s announcement of its investment of $1.3 billion in three transmission lines crossing six states, including one in Vermont and New Hampshire. This investment was funded by the…