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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, joined U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), and 70 bicameral Democrats in calling for a new investigation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Bipartisan State Boating Act would reduce costs for states and recreators, help combat aquatic invasive species  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today introduced the State Boating Act, bipartisan legislation to empower states to fund crucial boating programs and aquatic invasive species control by ensuring they can…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today grilled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem about how her mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and poor leadership over DHS have led to a complete loss of the American people’s confidence in her…

Welch secures commitment from Noem to provide answers about compensation her “special advisor” may have received as a result of taxpayer-funded DHS contracts  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today grilled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi for bypassing a competitive bidding process to award a…

Welch: “There is absolutely no coherent rationale that the president has offered for the end game of this war against Iran.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tonight spoke on the Senate floor to condemn President Trump’s reckless war of regime change in the Middle East. In his remarks, Senator…

Statement of Senator Peter WelchOn Berta CáceresMarch 2, 2026 Today marks ten years since the murder of Honduran environmental leader Berta Cáceres. She lost her life after rallying her Indigenous Lenca community to halt construction of the Agua Zarca Dam project. Berta’s killers were hired…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, and U.S. Senator Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy, introduced the Reconductoring Existing Wires for Infrastructure Reliability and Expansion (REWIRE) Act, new bipartisan legislation to modernize the nation’s electric grid and meet America’s growing…