Foreign Affairs

Statement from Senator Peter Welchon the 50th Anniversary of the Murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen MoffittAs Prepared to Submit September 21, 2026 Mr. President, 50 years ago, on September 21, 1976, Chile’s former ambassador to the United States, Orlando Letelier, and his colleague…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement opposing the Trump Administration’s plan to sell $2.8 billion of munitions to Israel: “As if the past two years of appalling death, destruction, and political and economic turmoil across the Middle East…

Statement of Senator Peter Welch for the Congressional Recordon Cluster Munitions Submitted September 15, 2026 Mr. President, the Third Review Conference of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions is underway in Laos, a country where millions of U.S. cluster munitions from the Vietnam…

Amendment would reassert Congress’ tariff authorities  WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today filed an amendment to the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act to remove language in Section 113 of the Act that could enable the Trump Administration to impose tariffs on any country, for any reason. …

Welch Statement for the Congressional RecordOn Guatemala and President ArévaloSubmitted July 15, 2026 Mr. President, in December 2022, I traveled to Guatemala as part of a Congressional Delegation led by Senator Tim Kaine.  Four months earlier, to the shock and dismay of powerful right-wing forces…