Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Friday led 18 of their Senate colleagues, including every Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leaders emphasizing the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Friday led 18 of their Senate colleagues, including every Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leaders emphasizing the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today introduced legislation to de-link the development of renewable energy from oil and gas leasing. The Comprehensive Legislation for Expanding and Advancing Nonrestrictive (CLEAN) Energy Act and the Nonrestrictive Offshore Wind…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) met this week with Bernardo Arévalo, President-elect of Guatemala. They released the following statement:  “This week we welcomed President-elect Arévalo to Capitol Hill to begin a dialogue on his forthcoming agenda, which includes the goals…

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL) applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) investment of more than $7 million in the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center, housed within the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. The Innovation Center, which was a…

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, U.S Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and…