Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tonight released the following statement after voting to extend government funding to avoid a government shutdown and continue negotiations on bipartisan funding bills:  “The clock is ticking, and Vermont families are counting on us to pass a…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said during a visit to Mexico’s top avocado-producing state that Mexican avocado exporters “shouldn’t have the opportunity to sell those avocados to the United States market.” The Governor of Michoacán added that Mexico will soon implement…

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…