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                        Nov 14, 2023
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Rules Committee meeting today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) helped advance a resolution that would allow for the en bloc confirmation of military promotions, bypassing Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) holds on 378 military promotions. Sen. Tuberville’s block on military promotions…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Nov 13, 2023
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            NEW YORK, Nov. 13 – Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) visited the United Nations today in order to hear directly from key leaders about urgent efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and end the unacceptably high loss of civilian lives.…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Nov 13, 2023
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C.–Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s adoption of a Code of Conduct, following years of reporting exposing alleged ethical lapses of Supreme Court Justices: “The integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court matters–and that integrity has continuously been…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Nov 13, 2023
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today applauded the announcement of over $1 million in grants to the Northeastern Vermont Development Association of St. Johnsbury, VT, and the Center on Rural Innovation in Hartland, VT, awarded by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development…
                        
                     
                    
                
                            
                                            
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                        Nov 10, 2023
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas…