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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT) introduced legislation to lower the cost of college for current and future borrowers.  The Student Loan Interest Elimination Act would refinance the interest on federal student loans for all existing borrowers to zero percent…

WASHINGTON – Key provisions from Senator Peter Welch’s (D-VT) bipartisan Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act were included in The Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act, a bipartisan package of bills aimed at holding pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) accountable for rising prescription drug prices. The…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Angus King (I-ME) today introduced the Farmland Access Act, legislation that will help protect American farmland for its intended use and expand access to farming for the next generation. The bill updates an existing, but underutilized, program within the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Expanding Nationwide Access to Test Strips Act, legislation that would expand access to and decriminalize drug test strips nationwide in order to prevent drug overdoses and deaths. The legislation is cosponsored…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Expanding Nationwide Access to Test Strips Act, legislation that would expand access to and decriminalize drug test strips nationwide in order to prevent drug overdoses and deaths. The legislation is cosponsored by U.S.…

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT—Senator Peter Welch, Vermont Governor Phil Scott, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts, and State and local agriculture stakeholders visited farmer Paul Mazza and his family at the Paul Mazza’s Fruit and Vegetables farm in Essex Junction today to survey extensive damage to crops…

BURLINGTON, VT — Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Peter Welch (D-VT) and Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this past Friday, calling on the Department of Transportation (DOT) to support the State of Vermont’s request for immediate…