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                        Mar 26, 2025
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, yesterday took to the Senate floor and called on Congress to defend the right to free speech and freedom of the press. Senator Welch discussed how our…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Mar 25, 2025
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            Welch: “Although we agree that government should not infringe on free speech, I don’t believe that’s what has been happening here.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, addressed far-right false claims of a…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Mar 18, 2025
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            Welch: “I'm very disturbed about what is happening...how it's affecting our families here in Vermont, how it's affecting our businesses here in Vermont, and how it's affecting the mutual cooperation that we had the blessing of enjoying for generations—between us and Canada. I am opposed…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Mar 17, 2025
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in issuing the following statement after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming wartime power to…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Mar 14, 2025
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            Welch garners pledge from Oz to address excessive pricing from insurance companies  WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) questioned Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Trump’s nominee to be the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…