Leahy Law

Welch’s remarks on the Senate Floor follow shocking new reporting from the New York Times  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called on U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to abide by the Leahy Law and investigate allegations of sexual violence and human rights abuses…

Palestinian men walk near rubble of houses destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators wants Congress' watchdog agency to investigate whether controls on humanitarian…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) in urging U.S. Secretary of State…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This afternoon, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in calling on their colleagues to support Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block certain offensive arms and weapons sales to Israel.   “All of us here…

Elodie Reed/Vermont Public FileDemonstrators stand outside Sen. Bernie Sanders' Burlington office on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Almost exactly a year later, Vermont's entire congressional delegation is asking the Biden administration to stop sending offensive weapons to Israel. Vermont’s congressional delegation is criticizing the Biden administration…