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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, this week joined U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-03) in introducing the Freedom for Agricultural Repair and Maintenance Act (FARM Act), bicameral legislation…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined National Public Radio’s All Things Considered to discuss the ongoing shutdown fight and his bipartisan efforts to extend funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps feed 42 million Americans.   The Trump Administration has…

Welch highlights new bicameral federal legislation to ensure farmers can fix their own equipment  WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) outlined how President Trump’s global trade war has wreaked havoc on the United States’ agricultural…

Before the vote, Welch slammed Trump’s reckless trade war and called on Congress to reassert its authority on trade policy  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today voted in favor of a bipartisan resolution to end…

Welch Joined Wyden and health care advocates for a press conference on lowering health care costs  WASHINGTON, D.C. – In remarks from the Senate floor tonight, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, raised the alarm about the need to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In remarks from the Senate floor this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, questioned the legality of the President’s recent military actions in the Caribbean Sea and demanded that Congress assert its…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today led every Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat in demanding answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) about the legality…