Senate Finance Committee

Bill Aligns Medicare Payments for EMS Providers with Community Needs, Ensures EMS Can Provide Essential Medical Care to Rural Communities WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), members of the Senate Finance Committee, alongside U.S. Representative Becca Balint (D-VT-At-Large), today reintroduced the Emergency Medical Services Reimbursement for On-scene Care and Support (EMS…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance and Agriculture Committees, and U.S. Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.) today reintroduced the Global Climate Resilience Act, legislation that would create a new debt-for-resilience program to bolster the United States’ ability to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today released the following statement after Republicans blocked a vote on the Lower Health Care Costs Act, a three-year extension of urgently-needed health care tax credits for Vermonters:  “A health care crisis is literally days away, yet…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) this week introduced the Multigenerational Home Caregiver Credit Act, bipartisan legislation to address the nationwide aging crisis and combat skyrocketing health care costs by…

In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Congressional leadership, and members of the House, Welch calls for bipartisan cooperation to solve urgent health care crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, called on Senate Finance…