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Welch gets commitment from Secretary Kennedy to work on bipartisan Welch-Hawley bill to lower prescription drug prices for Americans  WASHINGTON, D.C.— In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to task for the Trump Administration’s failure to lower prescription drug prices for everyday Americans. Senator Welch grilled Secretary Kennedy on how TrumpRx—the Trump…

Resolution emphasizes need for increased conservation efforts for freshwater systems  WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Earth Day, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources and Biotechnology, reintroduced a resolution to recognize the significant ecological and cultural role of lake sturgeon in Vermont…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate’s only former Public Defender, alongside U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, led a group of 26 Senators in calling on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government leadership to provide…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,joined U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and…

Welch: “Let me say this clearly, let me say it slowly, and let me say it directly: President Trump has, since January 6th, pursued an all-out effort to continue his dispute that he lost that election.”    WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a subcommittee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch…

Welch pushed for Trump to issue refunds after the Supreme Court blocked his reckless, global tariffs  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today urged Vermont small businesses to apply for a refund from the U.S. government for President Trump’s reckless and illegal global tariffs.   The new refund…