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Apr 14, 2025
Welch, Colleagues Press U.S. Trade Representative on Impacts of Destructive Trump Tariffs on Farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch, a member of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and 17 of their colleagues in expressing great concern about the impact of the Administration’s reckless tariff agenda on our nation’s farmers.…
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Apr 14, 2025
A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists. Columbia University faculty members gather to protest the university’s concessions to Trump's administration on March 24, 2025, in NYC. Photo: Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Mohsen K.…
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Apr 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), James Risch (R-Idaho), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) to introduce the Recreational Trails Program Full Funding Act, bipartisan…
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Apr 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal…
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Apr 10, 2025
Ballal is an Oscar-winning co-director of the documentary No Other Land WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) today led 29 of their bicameral colleagues in raising the alarm over escalating violence in the West Bank. In a…
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Apr 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) yesterday spoke on the Senate Floor on how President Trump’s January 20th Executive Order suspending admission to the United States for Afghan refugees has left vulnerable families stranded and abandoned thousands who face persecution. In his remarks,…
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Apr 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, this week led eight lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee in sending a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA), commending lawyers and law firms that are…