AJ Byambasaikhan

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today joined U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in urging USDA to promptly release cost share reimbursements for the National Organic Certification Cost Share Program (NOCCSP), which many farms rely on to offset high certification costs.…

BURLINGTON, VT – 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 released the following statement regarding the recent ICE raids in South Burlington:   “President Trump’s domestic army, ICE, came into Vermont yesterday from out of state and, as is…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and 40 Senate colleagues in demanding that the Department of Defense (DOD) provide answers to the American people on the airstrikes on a school in Minab, Iran, and civilian casualties in the Trump Administration’s…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today joined U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in introducing the Reclaim Trade Powers Act, bicameral legislation that would end President Donald Trump’s indiscriminate 10% tariffs on most goods by repealing Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.   After the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, led U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) to investigate all complaints the IG has received regarding FEMA. In their letter, the Senators raise concerns about allegations…