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WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) addressed the importance of United States Supreme Court ethics reform today in a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. The Committee  advanced the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023, with unanimous Democratic support. The legislation requires the U.S. Supreme Court…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today introduced the Improving Access to Nutrition Act, legislation that would help more Americans access the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as 3SquaresVT in Vermont. Reps. Barbara Lee (CA-12) and Alma Adams (NC-12) introduced the…

WASHINGTON—Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) today introduced the Food for Thought Act, legislation to create a grant program within the Department of Education to help community colleges and minority serving institutions (MSIs) provide free meals to low-income students through on-campus meal…

Mike Dougherty / Vermont PublicRep. Becca Balint discusses the state's flood response at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, July 12. From farmers to restaurant owners, many Vermonters are counting on federal disaster assistance to help them recover from last week's catastrophic flooding. Vermont's congressional delegation has…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a statement following the release of a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism on her technical…

WASHINGTON—Following catastrophic flooding that damaged water systems throughout Vermont, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) convened a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee today to discuss the growing challenges our rural water systems as climate change progresses.   Joined by witnesses Jennifer Day,…

“This is all about climate change,” Welch said of the flood devastation that he observed last week. Sen. Peter Welch listens as firefighter Will Perkins talks about recent flooding in Weston, at the Weston Volunteer Fire Department, Saturday July 15, 2023. Photo by Zachary P.…