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Apr 14, 2025
More than 60 business and nonprofit leaders attended event STOWE, VT – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, hosted a conversation at The Alchemist in Stowe on the impact of President Trump’s trade war on Vermont’s outdoor and tourism economy. Senator Welch’s…
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Apr 14, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (Vt.-AL) today released the following statement on the illegal detention of Mohsen Mahdawi by the Trump Administration: “Earlier today, Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont, walked into an immigration…
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Apr 14, 2025
Welch, Colleagues Press U.S. Trade Representative on Impacts of Destructive Trump Tariffs on Farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch, a member of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee, joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and 17 of their colleagues in expressing great concern about the impact of the Administration’s reckless tariff agenda on our nation’s farmers.…
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Apr 14, 2025
A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists. Columbia University faculty members gather to protest the university’s concessions to Trump's administration on March 24, 2025, in NYC. Photo: Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Mohsen K.…
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Apr 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), James Risch (R-Idaho), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) to introduce the Recreational Trails Program Full Funding Act, bipartisan…
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Apr 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal…
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Apr 10, 2025
Ballal is an Oscar-winning co-director of the documentary No Other Land WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) today led 29 of their bicameral colleagues in raising the alarm over escalating violence in the West Bank. In a…