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May 18, 2023
U.S. Senate / https://www.welch.senate.gov/Vermont Senator Peter Welch's official Senate photo Vermont Senator Peter Welch led a hearing Wednesday in Washington on the challenges of expanding rural broadband. Testimony from providers across the country included those working to deploy high-speed internet throughout the Green Mountain State.…
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May 17, 2023
Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) convened his first hearing as Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee this week on the need to expand access to broadband in rural communities. The hearing marks the first in a series on advancing economic opportunity…
Press Release
May 17, 2023
Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Peter Welch (D-VT) and Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL), announced that NEK Community Broadband (NEKCB) will receive Vermont’s first ever United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ReConnect grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network in Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties in…
Press Release
May 17, 2023
Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) today introduced the bipartisan ReConnecting Rural America Act, legislation to reauthorize and reinforce the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ReConnect Loan and Grant Program. ReConnect plays a central role in expanding access to high-speed broadband…
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May 16, 2023
Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) led the Vermont and New Hampshire congressional delegations in sending a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis R. McDonough today, urging the VA to use authority granted under the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022 to make it easier…
In The News
May 15, 2023
BROADBAND PUSH: Sen. Peter Welch might be new to the upper chamber, but he’s no stranger to the challenges facing rural America, and especially the fight for broadband internet access. Welch, who co-founded the bipartisan rural broadband caucus in the House, now heads the Senate Ag…
Press Release
May 15, 2023
Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) held a press conference in Burlington calling for a stronger code of ethics of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Senator Welch, a member of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, was joined by Marilyn Skoglund, retired Associate Justice…