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Mar 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the Senate Finance Committee today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) opposed advancing Dr. Mehmet Oz’s nomination to be the next Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services…
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Mar 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) questioned Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to be the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), a federal agency that provides program benefits to over 150,000 Vermonters and 71 million…
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Mar 25, 2025
Frank Bisignano, who pledged to improve customer service, told Senate Democrats he had “never thought about” making the agency private. Frank Bisignano is President Trump’s nominee to oversee the Social Security Administration.Credit.Brendan McDermid/Reuters Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s pick to the lead the Social Security Administration,…
Press Release
Mar 25, 2025
MONTPELIER, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spent the Senate’s first in-state work week of the 119th Session meeting with concerned Vermonters, business owners, farmers, patients, and members of the Vermont State Legislature. On Saturday, March 15, Sen. Welch joined Vermont Treasurer Mike Pieciak…
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Mar 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced the witnesses for their forum Wednesday, “Cures in Crisis: What Gutting NIH Research Means for Americans with Cancer, Alzheimer's, & Other Diseases.” The forum will feature former Director of the National Institutes…
Press Release
Mar 24, 2025
Welch: “Newsflash for my colleagues across the aisle: their claims of a ‘vast cover-up’ against conservatives will get debunked as quickly as their claims about supporting free speech.” WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, announced…
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Mar 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today during President Trump’s Cabinet meeting, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said, “We are going to eliminate FEMA.” Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following reaction: “The Trump Administration’s grand plan for victims of natural disasters is to abandon them—and it’s…