Elisabeth St. Onge

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week joined a spotlight hearing titled: “Dismantling Education: What the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attacks on Federal Programs Mean for Students, Families, and Educators,” to highlight how the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today led eleven Democratic Senators in introducing a resolution condemning President Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former two-term President of Honduras who was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for drug…

Bill would test a treatment-in-place Medicare reimbursement model for EMS providers, helping patients avoid unnecessary hospital visits WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Comprehensive Alternative Response to Emergencies (CARE) Act,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement after voting against a continuing resolution that fails to extend urgently-needed health care tax credits:  “I cannot vote for a government funding bill that kicks millions of Americans off their health care.…

Before the vote, Welch slammed Trump’s reckless trade war and called on Congress to reassert its authority on trade policy  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today voted in favor of a bipartisan resolution to end…