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WASHINGTON—Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) sent a letter today to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), calling on the office to study interagency data collection on areas of the country that are unserved or underserved by water and wastewater infrastructure. By…

RICHMOND, VT – Today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chair of the Rural Development and Energy Subcommittee, joined Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in welcoming Robert Bonnie, the Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation with the U.S. Department of…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senator Angus King (I-Maine) today introduced the Farmland Access Act, legislation that will help protect American farmland for its intended use and expand access to farming for the next generation. The bill updates an existing, but underutilized, program within the…

BURLINGTON, VT — Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Congresswoman Becca Balint (D-Vt.-AL) sent a letter today, urging United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to approve Governor Phil Scott’s request for a Secretarial Disaster Designation for the State of…

WATERBURY, VT—This afternoon Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Congresswoman Becca Balint (D-Vt.-AL) on a call with United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss the extreme damage to farms caused by recent storms and flooding in Vermont.   “Vermont’s…