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Bill to reverse Trump’s price-hiking global tariffs passed the Senate with bipartisan support   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Rand…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today joined U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) in reintroducing the ReConnecting Rural America Act, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the U.S. Department of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, this week joined U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-03) in introducing the Freedom for Agricultural Repair and Maintenance Act (FARM Act), bicameral legislation…

Welch highlights new bicameral federal legislation to ensure farmers can fix their own equipment  WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) outlined how President Trump’s global trade war has wreaked havoc on the United States’ agricultural…

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…

Welch Joined Wyden and health care advocates for a press conference on lowering health care costs  WASHINGTON, D.C. – In remarks from the Senate floor tonight, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, raised the alarm about the need to…