Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development

Letter comes after USDA Secretary Rollins announced a proposal to relocate Dept. employees throughout the country  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, led nine of his Senate colleagues in calling…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) in reintroducing the Local School Foods Expansion Act, bicameral legislation…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today joined U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and U.S. Representative Sean Casten (D-IL-06) in reintroducing the Energizing Our Communities Act, legislation to support local…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, joined U.S. Representatives Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10) and Alma Adams (D-NC-12) in reintroducing the bicameral Capital for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Act, legislation to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, was joined by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in introducing the Renewable Energy Certainty Act, legislation…