Senate Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) questioned Big Tech CEOs about the companies’ persistent failures to protect children online and the need for an independent watchdog to oversee Big Tech. Senator Welch co-leads with Sen. Michael…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights, voted to authorize issuing subpoenas to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo, regarding the committee’s investigation…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined fellow members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights last night on the floor of the Senate to deliver remarks on the importance to authorize issuing subpoenas to Harlan Crow,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting today, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) stressed the importance of bipartisan collaboration to ensure that the federal public defender budget remains adequately funded. “I have circulated a letter, that all of our Democratic colleagues have signed, trying to correct…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Friday led 18 of their Senate colleagues, including every Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leaders emphasizing the…