Aaron White

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today celebrated the advancement of his bipartisan Aviation Innovation and Global Competitiveness Act through the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee. This legislation, which advanced out of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee with bipartisan support in July, would improve the Federal Aviation Administration’s…

Statement of Senator Peter Welch for the Congressional Recordon Cluster Munitions Submitted September 15, 2026 Mr. President, the Third Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions is underway in Laos, a country where millions of U.S. cluster munitions from the Vietnam…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senators from Vermont and members of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) urging him to immediately convene a full Committee hearing on President Trump’s reckless trade war…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an oversight hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a fiery exchange with Kash Patel, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), about the FBI and the Trump Administration’s election interference efforts…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today announced the delivery of more than $12 million in new federal funding, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to help fund repairs to infrastructure from the 2023 and 2024 floods.   Infrastructure repair and replacement projects in the towns…