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WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) emphasized how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in former President Donald Trump’s immunity case endangers the United States’ constitutional system of checks and balances and Congress’ constitutional responsibility to enforce…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in introducing the 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…

Welch: "This Continuing Resolution will not meet the needs of Vermont, or any state recovering from a disaster."    WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement in response to both Chambers of Congress reaching a bipartisan agreement on a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR),…

Fourteen months after last summer's floods, municipal officials such as Stannard Select Board member Katy Knuth, seen here standing in front of a washed-out bridge on Stannard Mountain Road, are still waiting on reimbursement from FEMA for the cost of repairing damage to roads and…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Vermont Congressional Delegation, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) introduced the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Establishment Act Amendments Act, legislation that extends the boundary of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park to include the neighboring…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested information from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding the international deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in…

Massive Investment for High-Speed Internet Officially Obligated to Vermont by U.S. Department of Commerce WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Rural Development Subcommittee and member of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today applauded the Biden-Harris Administration’s investment of over $228 million…