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Jul 02, 2024
LONDONDERRY and LUDLOW, VT – Nearly one year after the July 2023 floods, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) sat down with community members and flood-impacted small businesses in Londonderry and Ludlow. Sen. Welch and Rep. Balint discussed the communities’…
Press Release
Jul 01, 2024
Welch secured federal funding for the project in 2024 SHELBURNE, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined the Champlain Housing Trust (CHT), local leaders and organizations in celebrating the groundbreaking of the Bay Ridge neighborhood project, which will provide 94 new permanently affordable…
In The News
Jul 01, 2024
The three members of Vermont’s Congressional Delegation weighed in on Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on many of the charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. Rep. Becca Balint and Vermont…
Press Release
Jul 01, 2024
BURLINGTON, VT — Today the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Donald Trump’s immunity case. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement: “This activist Supreme Court has unconscionably allowed Donald Trump to evade criminal liability, a move that all but ensures he will…
Press Release
Jul 01, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) recently introduced the American Energy Efficiency Act, legislation that would boost the use of cutting-edge technologies to increase energy efficiency capabilities across America. Studies have estimated that a national energy efficiency resource standard…
In The News
Jun 30, 2024
To replace the loss statewide would cost $9.3 million a year, according to Christine Hallquist, executive director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board. A shipment of fiber optic cable is delivered to the Washington Electric Co-op in East Montpelier on Thursday, April 21, 2022. Photo…
In The News
Jun 28, 2024
Derby leaders and community members are joined by Sen. Peter Welch for groundbreaking on the town's park project Tuesday, June 25, 2024. From left are: Al Loukes, Shelly Morey, Julie Mossa, Deb Latta, Sen. Peter Welch, Town Administrator Bob Kelley, Town Clerk Faye Morin, Aileen…