Flood Recovery

BARRE, VT – Following a roundtable held today with local leaders, community business leaders, and housing advocates, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), joined Barre City leadership on a walking tour of Barre to discuss strategies for flood mitigation, recovery, and resiliency.   “Nine months after brutal…

BARRE, Vt. (WCAX) - Barre City residents are still dealing with major impacts nine months after last summer’s flooding. Sen. Peter Welch was in Barre on Monday to see what he can do in Washington to help. “It hasn’t been easy and the tension of…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took to the Senate Floor yesterday to call out Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s failure to deliver for rural America. Welch pointed to the postal delays plaguing Vermont and other rural areas because of DeJoy’s policies, and the lack…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing this week, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to help Vermont farmers impacted by natural disasters like this summer’s brutal flooding and May freeze. He discussed the need to…

Sen. Peter Welch was in the nation’s capitol today delivering opening remarks to a hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee as he tries to get more funding as the state continues to recover from the summer’s floods. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Washington, D.C. –…