Press Release
Aug 06, 2026
Welch offered 42 amendments to better support small and family farms, strengthen rural communities, improve access to nutrition WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today joined all Democrats on the Committee in voting against advancing Senate Republicans’ Farm Bill. The bill failed to advance out of…
Press Release
Aug 04, 2026
"We can stop capitulating today by doing our job and rejecting a completely unqualified man to be the top law enforcement official in this country.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today voted against advancing Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney…
Press Release
Aug 04, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Authorization Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to maintain the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, which was…
Statement
Jul 15, 2026
Welch Statement for the Congressional RecordOn Guatemala and President ArévaloSubmitted July 15, 2026 Mr. President, in December 2022, I traveled to Guatemala as part of a Congressional Delegation led by Senator Tim Kaine. Four months earlier, to the shock and dismay of powerful right-wing forces…
Press Release
Jul 06, 2026
BURLINGTON, VT–July 6, 2026–The Vermont Congressional Delegation, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (D-Vt.) today announced $19,719,310 in federal funding to complete the reconstruction of U.S. Route 7 from Pittsford to Brandon, Vermont. The funding for the Vermont Agency of Transportation…