Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) convened his first hearing as Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee this week on the need to expand access to broadband in rural communities. The hearing marks the first in a series on…

BURLINGTON, VT - Today, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Representative Becca Balint (D-Vt.-AL), announced that NEK Community Broadband (NEKCB) will receive Vermont’s first ever United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ReConnect grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network in Caledonia, Essex, and…

WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kans.) today introduced the bipartisan ReConnecting Rural America Act, legislation to reauthorize and reinforce the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ReConnect Loan and Grant Program. ReConnect plays a central role in expanding access…

WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led the Vermont and New Hampshire congressional delegations in sending a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis R. McDonough today, urging the VA to use authority granted under the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022 to…

BURLINGTON, VT - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) held a press conference in Burlington calling for a stronger code of ethics of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Senator Welch, a member of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, was joined by Marilyn Skoglund,…

BURLINGTON, VT—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) toured organic farms at Burlington’s Intervale Center today, in celebration of the Opportunities in Organic Act, legislation introduced by the Senator this week to advance organic agriculture in Vermont and in communities across the country.  “The Intervale embodies the best…