Health Care

Welch calls on Republicans to join forces with Democrats to avert government shutdown  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Monday night on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) led seven Senate colleagues in imploring…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in introducing the Share the Savings with Seniors Act of 2025, which would lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors with chronic health…

Welch joined Punchbowl News for a summit on expanding access to rural health care  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today joined Punchbowl News for a discussion on the state of rural health care, and his…

Welch also demands vote on bill to claw back Republicans’ $5 billion handout to Big Pharma  WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) delivered a scathing review of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as Secretary of the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, tonight slammed Congressional Republicans’ attack on health care, including the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.  “We should repeal the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. It's not a working families’…