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MONTPELIER, VT–  Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined Vermont postal employees and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) members, the Montpelier Commission of Recovery and Resilience, community advocates, and postal customers to call on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to…

USPS has an internal benchmark of restoring service 180 days after a natural disaster. Montpelier’s Post Office has been closed for more than 440 days MONTPELIER, VT—U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) on Tuesday…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy just received another nasty-gram from Vermont’s congressional delegation, one of whom made a pit stop in Montpelier on Tuesday to give voice to their shared call for the return of a fully functioning post office to the Capital City. Joined by…

BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the FEMA Operational Transparency Act, a new bill directing the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is spending it’s budget, and recommend ways to reduce the Agency’s bloated administrative costs.…

BURLINGTON, VT – During National Recovery Month, Senator Welch welcomed $2 million from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to the DREAM Project, an organization providing Vermont’s youth with peer-to-peer mentoring services which prevent high-risk behaviors such as substance misuse…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Representative Alma Adams (D-NC-12) in introducing the Parent PLUS Parity Act, bicameral legislation to ease the burden of student loan debt for parent borrowers who have helped…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i) and Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) in introducing a resolution condemning an escalating censorship crisis that has removed and targeted thousands of books from the shelves of schools, libraries and universities…