Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) recently led a group of his bicameral colleagues, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07), Jim McGovern (D-MA-02), Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51), and Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20)…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the ten-year anniversary of the Obama-Biden Administration’s normalization agreement with Cuba, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in calling on President Biden to restore two key…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) led Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in urging President Biden to promptly designate…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined 11 of his Senate colleagues in renewing calls to the Biden Administration to urge the governments of Israel and Egypt to protect press freedom and allow journalists into Gaza to cover the ongoing war. In their…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement on reports that Elliot Onil Eastman, age 26, of Vermont, has died in the Philippines after being kidnapped in the Zamboanga del Norte province:   “If the reports of Elliot’s death are confirmed, it…