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Welch also joined letter to DHS requesting information about ICE’s use of unidentified plainclothes agents  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in cosponsoring new legislation to require immigration enforcement officers to display clearly…

Senators: “Attempts by the government to punish an individual simply for espousing political views it disagrees with are wrong and unconstitutional.”  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today , U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement today after the Senate voted to dismiss articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas:   “Articles of impeachment should never be weaponized—they should be presented solemnly and rarely, and only when…