Senate Judiciary Committee

Welch: “It might be Trump First, or it might be Chevron First. But it’s not America First.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – In remarks from the Senate floor this week, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, outlined how President Trump’s illegal military actions in Venezuela stand to…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, this week slammed Republicans for holding a subcommittee hearing designed to attack district judges and politicize the judicial impeachment process. In his remarks at the hearing, Senator Welch emphasized how President Trump’s perpetuation of the ‘Big Lie’ that President…

Bill was also filed as an amendment to the appropriations package in the Senate  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and nine Senators in introducing the States’ Right to Regulate AI Act, legislation to prohibit…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week introduced the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act (VACRA), bipartisan legislation to modernize copyright registration for visual artists to make it easier and less costly for…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week introduced Vermont’s Wilmer Chavarria, Superintendent of the Winooski School District, during a bicameral forum focused on the Trump Administration’s cruel and inhumane mass deportation campaign. At the forum, Senator…