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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced the Farm Ownership Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation to help new and young farmers access the funding needed to purchase new land by establishing a pre-approval or pre-qualification process for loans…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in introducing the High Court Gift Ban Act, legislation that would ban Supreme Court Justices from…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Hold Corporate Criminals Accountable Act, bipartisan legislation to increase public transparency and accountability by allowing courts to consider the public interest in approving corporate criminal settlement agreements that don’t involve a…

Sen. Peter Welch, right, talks with Bruce Kaufman, owner of Riverside Farms, which experienced severe crop losses during the summer floods of 2023 and 2024. Welch says bureaucratic inefficiencies at FEMA have hobbled the recovery process for individuals and municipalities.Peter Hirschfeld/Vermont Public Sen. Peter Welch…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With a record 10,000 instances of individual books banned in the 2023-24 school year alone, Banned Books Week—recognized since 1982—is an important reminder of the censorship crisis in America. Book bans also extend beyond schools, with reports that federal prisons are abusing the rejection…

MONTPELIER, VT–  Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined Vermont postal employees and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) members, the Montpelier Commission of Recovery and Resilience, community advocates, and postal customers to call on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to…

USPS has an internal benchmark of restoring service 180 days after a natural disaster. Montpelier’s Post Office has been closed for more than 440 days MONTPELIER, VT—U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) on Tuesday…