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Senators: “This settlement agreement and the fund it creates demand accountability.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led all Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats in demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) launch an immediate,  thorough, and quick investigation into…

EAU CLAIRE and LA CROSSE, WI—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee, will travel to western Wisconsin next week to discuss how Washington can better serve rural communities.   On Friday, June 5th, Senator Welch will host a health care roundtable in Eau Claire focused on how Wisconsinites and rural communities…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, bicameral legislation led by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), to prohibit the use of the death penalty at…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, cosponsored the Taxing Buybacks from Big Oil Windfalls Act, legislation led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), which would increase the excise tax on stock buybacks of…

Bill would close loophole in Medicare policy that leaves seniors with high costs after leaving the hospital  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, joined U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in introducing the bipartisan, bicameral Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act, legislation to allow the time patients spend in…

Today – Friday, May 22nd —is the deadline for responses to the lawmakers’ letters  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thursday evening, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, alongside U.S. Representative Dave Min (D-CA-47), Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Chair of the Congressional Progressive…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) in leading the Senate’s passage of their bipartisan Terminating Restrictive Enforcement of Youth Settlements (TREY’S Law). This bipartisan legislation would void non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that silence survivors of child sexual…