Press Releases

BURLINGTON, VT – This week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, attended the University of Vermont’s second annual Research, Innovation, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Summit to discuss new and innovative approaches to addressing challenges facing rural America. The RISE…

BRATTLEBORO, VT – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Amtrak and members of the community for a groundbreaking ceremony to inaugurate the start of construction for platform upgrades and improvements to the new Brattleboro Station, which will include the state’s first ever level, accessible,…

BURLINGTON, VT – Two years after the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement on the urgent need to pass legislation protecting access to abortion and reproductive care:  “Decades from…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week introduced the bicameral Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry 2.0 Act and the bipartisan, bicameral Burn Pit Elimination Act, bills that would improve, expand, and enhance protections for veterans under the PACT Act in addition to eliminating burn pits to prevent future…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.) led 12 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm, urging DOE to take steps to bolster and diversify the nation’s domestic supply of electric vehicle batteries—including by promoting…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On World Refugee Day, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Representatives Greg Casar (D-TX-35), Debbie Dingell (D-MI-06), and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07)…