Elisabeth St. Onge

Bipartisan legislation would address the use of non-consensual digital replications in audiovisual works or sound recordings  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, today expressed support for the advancement of the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act (NO FAKES)…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in demanding answers about the Trump Administration’s awarding of millions in federal contracts to Event Strategies, Inc. (ESI), the event management firm that organized the rally used to…

Welch: “The whole point of free speech is that you can speak truth to power.”   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, alongside U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Knight First Amendment Institute, and Mohsen Mahdawi,…

The bipartisan, bicameral legislation supports advanced DNA technology for investigative agencies  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) this week celebrated the Senate’s passage of their bipartisan Carla Walker Act, legislation which would allow existing federal grant funds to support forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) DNA analysis and help solve…

Bipartisan resolution welcomes the international community to the first FIFA tournament to be jointly hosted by three nations: the United States, Canada, and Mexico  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch and U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) today led their colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution honoring the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Senators’ resolution celebrates that for first time…