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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, and U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), reintroduced the Rural Recovery Act, legislation that will create a new program at…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) will submit a Statement for the Congressional Record blasting Senate Republicans for attempting to advance President Trump’s rescission request, which claws back congressionally-appropriated funding, and his FY26 budget, which also threatens funding for HIV/AIDS and other life-saving…

Statement of Senator Peter WelchOn Republicans’ Rescissions Package and Funding to Combat HIV/AIDSAs Prepared for the Congressional RecordJuly 14, 2025 Mr. WELCH.  Mr. President, a June 25th article in the New York Times captured, in a single headline, the disaster that the misguided policies of…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this morning published an opinion in Fox News entitled: “I’m a Democrat and we need to fix FEMA with local control.”  Read Senator Welch’s op-ed and view an excerpt below:    SENATOR PETER WELCH: I’m a Democrat and we need…

BURLINGTON, VT—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following reaction to President Trump’s threat to impose a 35% tariff on Canada, beginning August 1, 2025:  “The president’s unnecessary trade war with Canada has already hurt Vermont’s businesses, farmers, and manufacturers—this escalation will only throw…

BURLINGTON, VT - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced that Vermont farmers and producers affected by crop losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can now submit applications for assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Disaster Relief Program. More than…

Welch’s Disaster AID Act filed on the anniversaries of Vermont’s July 2023 and July 2024 floods     WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) commemorated the anniversaries of the July 2023 and July 2024 floods today from the Senate Floor. Senator Welch also urged Congress…