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13 hours ago · Public Domain. It’s an election year, but not for everyone. In today’s Congressional Corner, Democratic Vermont Senator Peter Welch speaks with WAMC’s Ian Pickus. Next time in the ...
1 day ago · Sen Peter Welch (D-Vt) called the debate performance “a serious setback” for Biden.“The pending question in the public about beating Trump is the age question,” Welch said. “Last night ...
5 days ago · BURLINGTON, VT – Two years after the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center to overturn Roe v. Wade, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following statement on the urgent need to pass legislation protecting access to abortion and reproductive care: “Decades from now, this Supreme Court will be remembered in the ...
2 days ago · Welch secured federal funding for the project in 2022 . VermontBiz U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week joined local leaders, participants of Derby’s Senior Summer Day Camp, and members of the community to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Derby Park project, which will convert acres of unused land into a new community outdoor park. Sen. Welch nominated and secured federal funding ...
4 days ago · BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont Sen. Peter Welch will be in Brattleboro on Monday to celebrate additions to Amtrak. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held to mark the start of construction...
4 days ago · WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Peter Welch, Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, took to the Senate floor on Monday evening, June 18, to call for more supplemental disaster funding for Vermont communities impacted by flooding in July 2023, and urged his colleagues to take the economic threat of climate change seriously.
2 days ago · The 55-page analysis places U.S. disenfranchisement laws alongside the practices of 136 other countries with populations over 1.5 million people and concludes that the U.S.—with its "punitive criminal legal system" and high incarceration rates—is an "outlier nation." "Wide access to voting is a cornerstone of rights-respecting, democratic ...
