Daniel Davis

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With a record 10,000 instances of individual books banned in the 2023-24 school year alone, Banned Books Week—recognized since 1982—is an important reminder of the censorship crisis in America. Book bans also extend beyond schools, with reports that federal prisons are abusing the rejection…

MONTPELIER, VT–  Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined Vermont postal employees and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) members, the Montpelier Commission of Recovery and Resilience, community advocates, and postal customers to call on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy just received another nasty-gram from Vermont’s congressional delegation, one of whom made a pit stop in Montpelier on Tuesday to give voice to their shared call for the return of a fully functioning post office to the Capital City. Joined by…

BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the FEMA Operational Transparency Act, a new bill directing the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is spending it’s budget, and recommend ways to reduce the Agency’s bloated administrative costs.…

BURLINGTON, VT – During National Recovery Month, Senator Welch welcomed $2 million from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to the DREAM Project, an organization providing Vermont’s youth with peer-to-peer mentoring services which prevent high-risk behaviors such as substance misuse…