WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: USPS has an internal benchmark of restoring service 180 days after a natural disaster. Montpelier's Post Office has been closed for more than 440 days MONTPELIER, VT--U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) on Tuesday sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy urging immediate action to reopen the Montpelier Post Office, whi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on Oct. 1, 2024: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement regarding the Iranian attack on Israel and the continued escalation in the Middle East: I strongly condemn Iran's massive missile attack on Israel. For months, leaders in Israel and Iran have chosen to escalate tensions rather than pursue diplomatic solutions. They have pushed us to the brink of a wider and more disastro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas) on Wednesday will welcome Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to Austin for a discussion with Texas labor leaders and workers on corporate power and worker freedom. The FTC enforces the nation's antitrust and consumer protection laws. Under Chair Khan's leadership, the agency has sought to block mergers that would   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Inflation Reduction Act and USDA-funded grants will help create jobs and support energy efficiency improvements BURLINGTON, VT U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy,celebrated the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) announcement of more than $2.1 million to Vermont to support renewable energy projects and help lower energy costs for   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, VT--Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, celebrated the U.S. Department of Agriculture's investment of $3.45 million in the Vermont-based Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-DBIC), which is housed within the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. The Innovation Center,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Representative Alma Adams (D-NC-12) in introducing the Parent PLUS Parity Act, bicameral legislation to ease the burden of student loan debt for parent borrowers who have helped their children pay for their higher education. Among other provisions, the Parent PLUS Parity Act makes parent borrowers eligible f  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: MONTPELIER, VT Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today joined Vermont postal employees and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) members, the Montpelier Commission of Recovery and Resilience, community advocates, and postal customers to call on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to improve rural mail service across Vermont and reopen the Montpelier Post Office. The post office has   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, VT During National Recovery Month, Senator Welch welcomed $2 million from the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to the DREAM Project, an organization providing Vermont's youth with peer-to-peer mentoring services which prevent high-risk behaviors such as substance misuse and abuse. "The DREAM Project has played an important role in our State by prov  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Hold Corporate Criminals Accountable Act, bipartisan legislation to increase public transparency and accountability by allowing courts to consider the public interest in approving corporate criminal settlement agreements that don't involve a conviction. The bipartisan bill will also provide more prosecutorial tools to combat corporate criminal  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) introduced the Farm Ownership Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation to help new and young farmers access the funding needed to purchase new land by establishing a pre-approval or pre-qualification process for loans secured through the USDA's Farm Service Agency. "Access to land is one of the most important--and expensive--factors   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) led Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in introducing the High Court Gift Ban Act, legislation that would ban Supreme Court Justices from receiving gifts valued at over $50 and help strengthen ethical standards of the Supreme Court. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14)   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: With a record 10,000 instances of individual books banned in the 2023-24 school year alone, Banned Books Week--recognized since 1982--is an important reminder of the censorship crisis in America. Book bans also extend beyond schools, with reports that federal prisons are abusing the rejection policy for books and publications. In conjunction with Banned Books Week and the bicameral Congressional resolution con  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, VT--U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the FEMA Operational Transparency Act, a new bill directing the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is spending it's budget, and recommend ways to reduce the Agency's bloated administrative costs. Recent reporting from Vermont Public found that FEMA's recovery in the State is being   more