Press Release

WASHINGTON—Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter today to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), calling on the office to study interagency data collection on areas of the country that are unserved or underserved by water and wastewater infrastructure. By…

BURLINGTON, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) commemorated the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, a transformative climate and economic legislative package that has lowered costs for working families, created jobs, and spurred the green energy transition in Vermont and…

RANDOLPH, VT – This morning, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) addressed the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s (VCRD) 2023 Vermont Community Leadership Summit in Randolph, Vermont.   The Senator spoke to approximately 500 attendees at the Vermont State University Randolph, including small business leaders, organizers, and local…

BURLINGTON, VT – Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) issued the following statement in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in a Fulton County, Georgia, case investigating a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election: “Donald Trump’s apparent willingness to bend our…

RICHMOND, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chair of the Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee, joined Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in welcoming Robert Bonnie, the Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation with the U.S. Department of…

WASHINGTON—On the one-year anniversary of the PACT Act, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-25) celebrated the inclusion of their Reducing Exposure to Burn Pits Amendment in this year’s Senate-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in late-July. The bipartisan amendment, which Senator…