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MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee and co-lead of legislation to repeal President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, today traveled to Montréal and met with trade officials, manufacturers and business owners, tourism industry leaders, and workers hurt by the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led eleven of his Senate colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration secure the release of Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen and high school student, currently detained at Israel’s notorious Ofer prison.…

Lawmakers to Rollins: “A requirement meant to stretch federal dollars could instead keep those dollars from reaching the farms and processors Congress intended to help.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined U.S. Representative…

BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL) today announced the delivery of $60.3 million in new federal funding, administered by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) to rehabilitate and…

MONTPELIER, VT — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week joined the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) for a Democracy Town Hall on the urgency of ending corporate spending in elections in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens…