Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

26,000 Vermonters Rely on LIHEAP for Home Energy Assistance  WASHINGTON, D.C. – As energy costs rise and with winter fast approaching, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and 27 bipartisan colleagues in urging the Department of Health and Human…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, joined U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), U.S. Representative Kim Schrier (D-WA-08), and 87 bicameral lawmakers in demanding President Trump reverse his executive order directing federal health agencies to overhaul longstanding childhood vaccine recommendations and encouraging states to reconsider…

NOTUS Finds 1 in 5 ACA marketplace enrollees dropped coverage since January   WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today released the following statement in reaction to new reporting from NOTUS that one in five Americans enrolled in health coverage through HealthCare.gov lost insurance coverage after President Trump and Congressional Republicans declined to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax…

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…

BURLINGTON, VT — The Vermont Congressional Delegation, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (D-VT-AL), called on Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought to obey the…