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BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) celebrates Vermont’s Team USA Olympians—Billy Bender, Ilona Maher, and Elle Purrier St. Pierre—as the 2024 Summer Olympic Games conclude and our Olympians return home. Bender, Maher, and St. Pierre competed in the summer Olympic Games, which were…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Rules and Administration and Senate Judiciary Committees, joined U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chairwoman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate…

BURLINGTON, VT – Today, the nation celebrates the second anniversary the enactment of the bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, a bill to deliver benefits and care to veterans impacted by toxic exposures from burn pits…

Vermont and National Health Care Leaders Voice Support for the Physician Fee Stabilization Act, a bill to help rural health care providers BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) announced support from national health organizations for their bipartisan Physician Fee Stabilization…

Sen. Peter Welch tours flood devastation on Red Village Road on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 (Photos by Paul Hayes) LYNDON — Federal officials this week promised to fix the broken Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster aid process. Touring flood-damaged east Lyndon on Monday, Sen.…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Rural Homeownership Continuity Act of 2024, legislation to fix the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee mortgage assistance program to provide more financing options so rural families can become homeowners. The bill…

ST. JOHNSBURY and LYNDONVILLE, VT – During National Health Center Week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, local health care and community leaders, and flood-impacted Vermonters…