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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week led his colleagues in calling on the Senate Appropriations Committee to fully fund the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services (SUBG) Block Grant program in the upcoming Fiscal Year (FY25) 2025 Labor, Health, and Human Services,…

BURLINGTON, VT –  Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) convened Vermont business owners and employers for a roundtable in Burlington, Vermont, on the rising costs of health care and prescription drugs. The roundtable comes ahead of Sen. Welch’s participation in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next Tuesday examining prescription…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week led nearly every Senate Democrat in calling on Congress to fund the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America) in the upcoming FY25 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations Bill. As a congressionally chartered national…

Sen. Peter Welch listens to Vermont business owners and employers discuss the high cost of health care and its impact on the local economy during a roundtable discussion held at the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies in Burlington on Friday. Elodie Reed / Vermont Public…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led a group of senators in calling on Congress to fund the Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program (Community Forest Program or CFP) in the upcoming FY25 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Created in the 2008…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday evening, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor urging Congress to work together to advance the Senate’s recently-unveiled Farm Bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following reaction to the announcement by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has paused plans to consolidate USPS facilities through a process called mail processing facility reviews (MPFR), which threatened to…