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Apr 01, 2025
Welch urged Republicans to support USDA’s school nutrition and dairy support programs. WASHINGTON, D.C.—In an Agriculture Committee hearing today focused on U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.)’s Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, Sen. Welch celebrated Vermont’s dairy farmers and students and called for passage of…
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Apr 01, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the bipartisan Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local (LOCAL) Foods Act, legislation to update the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906’s (FMIA) ‘Personal-Use Exemption’ to better support small-scale meat producers in…
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Apr 01, 2025
Senators seek to determine whether Todd Blanche knowingly and willfully provided untruthful testimony during his nomination hearing WASHINGTON, D.C. – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) led…
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Apr 01, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As President Trump reportedly prepares to enact blanket tariffs that will impact trade globally and plunge the economy into chaos, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement: “It is obvious that Trump ‘couldn’t care less’…
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Mar 31, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement commemorating International Transgender Day of Visibility: “International Transgender Day of Visibility is an essential reminder that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, always. No one should ever fear retribution…
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Mar 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, this week took to the Senate Floor to highlight the Senate Finance Committee’s new report that found Pfizer, which generated $20 billion in U.S. sales of prescription drugs in 2019,…
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Mar 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week joined Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and 15 of his Democratic colleagues in introducing the Honor Farmer Contracts Act, legislation to release illegally withheld funding for all contracts and agreements previously entered into by the U.S.…