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Welch announced the bill at the Choiniere Family Farm, a grass-fed organic dairy in Highgate Center. “The margins are much tighter for us, so this bill is super important,” one of the farm’s owners said. U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., announces the introduction of a…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today commended the Senate’s passage of their bipartisan amendment requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a review for veterans who served in Kosovo and engaged in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the closure of the Montpelier Post Office, which was caused by the devastating summer flooding in Vermont, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) on Tuesday sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy regarding the unacceptable…

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…