Press Release
Sep 08, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) recently joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) in introducing the District of Columbia Police Home Rule Act and the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, bicameral bills…
Press Release
Sep 08, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, led Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in reintroducing the…
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Sep 05, 2025
RANDOLPH, VT – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced registration is now open for this year’s annual Women’s Economic Opportunity Conference (WEOC), held Saturday, September 27, 2025. Vermonters interested in attending this free event can learn more and sign up by visiting welch.senate.gov/weoc. “The…
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Sep 04, 2025
Welch also demands vote on bill to claw back Republicans’ $5 billion handout to Big Pharma WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) delivered a scathing review of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as Secretary of the…
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Sep 04, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Members of the Senate Finance Committee in calling on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign from his position as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as he continues to push his…
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Sep 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, tonight slammed Congressional Republicans’ attack on health care, including the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “We should repeal the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. It's not a working families’…