Elisabeth St. Onge

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday evening, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took to the Senate Floor to call for an end to the United States' support for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s war strategy that has not only caused massive death and destruction but has failed to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) led a group of senators advocating for the Biden Administration to finalize the mental health parity rules proposed last summer. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Assistant…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, introduced the Rural Recovery Act, legislation that will create a new program at U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD)  to provide RD…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, joined U.S. Representatives Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10) and Alma Adams (D-NC-12) in introducing the bicameral Capital for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Act, legislation to help…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cosponsored the Shadow Docket Sunlight Act, new legislation introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), to bring transparency to decisions on the Supreme…