Press Release

Welch to join Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act next week  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with U.S. Senators…

Welch is Leading the Bipartisan, Bicameral Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act to Keep Nearly 23 Million Americans Connected  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today reacted to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) formal notice to Internet Service Providers that, without action by Congress, April…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos created during the IVF process are “children” under state law, support continues to grow for legislation introduced by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and cosponsored by Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) to protect access to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in sending a letter to the Biden Administration urging swift action and increased international pressure…

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Representative Becca Balint, and staff representatives for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined Vermont Governor Phil Scott, former Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), GlobalFoundries (GF) CEO Dr. Thomas Caulfield, and community leaders to celebrate the hundreds of millions of CHIPS and Science Act funding that will support the modernization of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate’s only former Public Defender, led every Senate Judiciary Democrat in sending a letter to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts urging the office to give appropriate consideration…