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Republicans block legislation to ensure all federal workers are paid  WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) cosponsored bills led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to pay all federal employees during the Republican-led shutdown. Senator Peters’ Military and Federal…

Senators' letter questions Commerce Secretary Lutnick over unprecedented use of national security tariffs  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today joined Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in leading eight Senate colleagues to call…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and 42 colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release the billions of dollars at…

Senate Republicans block resolution to prohibit Trump Administration from weaponizing U.S. military against American citizens  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) spoke in support of legislation led by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to reform and right-size the Insurrection Act, an emergency, near-wartime authority…

From left to right, Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and University of Vermont President Marlene Tromp at the University of Vermont on Oct. 20, 2025.Catherine Morrissey/For The Burlington Free Press As a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose views of late are…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) today celebrated the advancement of their bipartisan Foreign Robocall Elimination Act, legislation that would bring together government and private sector experts to find additional means of eliminating unlawful robocalls placed into the U.S.…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Finance Committee members Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), alongside Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the No Big Blockbuster Bailouts Act (NOBBBA), a bill to reverse Republicans’ policies in the so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’…