Health Care

A bill co-sponsored by Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, to take on the "deadly rise" of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, in the nation's illicit drug supply − including in Vermont − will soon be signed into law by President Joe Biden, according to a news release. The bipartisan…

WASHINGTON - Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) as well as Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.),…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) took to the Senate floor to call out Big Pharma’s fear-mongering and scare tactics about Congressional Democrats and the White House’s fight to lower prescription drug costs for seniors. The White House recently unveiled the first…

WASHINGTON – Key provisions from Senator Peter Welch’s (D-Vt.) bipartisan Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act were included in The Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act, a bipartisan package of bills aimed at holding pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) accountable for rising prescription drug prices. The…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the Expanding Nationwide Access to Test Strips Act, legislation that would expand access to and decriminalize drug test strips nationwide in order to prevent drug overdoses and deaths. The legislation is cosponsored…