In The News
May 11, 2024
Vermont's Congressional delegation is not happy with the job the Federal Emergency Management Response Agency did in the wake of the historic flooding in Vermont in July 2023. The Great Vermont Flood of 2023, as the National Weather Service dubbed it, took two lives. More than 350 family…
In The News
May 09, 2024
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., a former public defender, led a letter Thursday to Senate appropriators calling for the federal public defender program to receive its full funding request for the upcoming fiscal year. Twenty-five Democrats, including Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary…
Press Release
May 07, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Chamber of Progress recently released a new study analyzing the full costs of a lapse in Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) funding. The study found that lower-income families would not only lose access to high-speed internet but also to $10 billion in work…
In The News
May 06, 2024
Consumer advocates in education and healthcare see internet connectivity as a way to lift up struggling families. PHOTO: ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—Backers of a popular subsidy for Americans’ monthly internet bills are making last-minute appeals to leaders to keep the program funded, with Senate proponents hoping to…
In The News
May 02, 2024
Welch comes to Catamount touting climate change bill Sen. Peter Welch speaks at a press conference on April 25 at Williston's Catamount Community Forest promoting new legislation that would reward communities that help build electrical transmission capacity, necessary for expanding access to renewable energy. Observer…