Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the Advancing Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) Act, legislation to boost investments in grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), a type of transmission technology that expands capacity of existing transmission infrastructure. Companion legislation was introduced in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned experts about how false claims disputing the validity of the 2020 presidential election results have impacted overall confidence in election integrity, and discussed the ramifications of recent restrictive…

Bill Would Direct Key Federal Agencies to Use AI Tools to Improve Weather Forecasting, Crack Down on Illegal Deforestation, Optimize Electrical Grids  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.)…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.-06) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.-03) and Protect Our Care for a virtual event celebrating the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic health care accomplishments, including taking on Big Pharma and lowering drug…

“The report that a humanitarian aid worker from Anera, an American aid organization, was killed in Gaza on March 8th, is the latest tragedy in a relief effort that has not only not gone far enough—but is failing. The circumstances of his death should be independently…

Reaction of U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) to the conviction in the Southern District of New York of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on multiple counts of narcotics and weapons trafficking: “Former President Hernandez, his brother Juan Antonio, former Police Chief Bonilla, known as…