Elisabeth St. Onge

Welch: “There is absolutely no coherent rationale that the president has offered for the end game of this war against Iran.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tonight spoke on the Senate floor to condemn President Trump’s reckless war of regime change in the Middle East. In his remarks, Senator…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, and U.S. Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy, introduced the Reconductoring Existing Wires for Infrastructure Reliability and Expansion (REWIRE) Act, new bipartisan legislation to modernize the nation’s electric grid and meet America’s growing…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), John Curtis (R-Utah), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) this week introduced the Aviation Innovation and Global Competitiveness Act, bipartisan legislation to improve the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) type certification process for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft. The Senators’ legislation aims to help American AAM companies succeed and…

Welch calls on Netflix CEO to ensure fair competition for creators if proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery prevails  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, today questioned executives of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) about how their proposed merger could negatively impact America’s creative community. Senator Welch underscored the importance of protecting fair competition practices to ensure creators, writers, and producers…

Legislation would help more producers transition to and maintain organic practices  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today led 14 bicameral lawmakers in reintroducing the Opportunities in Organic Act, legislation designed to help farmers and other agricultural producers transition to organic practices and build successful…