Sen. Welch Issues Comments on Senate Floor About First Amendment
March 26, 2025
March 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following floor remarks on March 25, 2025:
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Mr. President, as you know, in 1791, our Nation's Founders had the boldness to ratify the First Amendment to the Constitution.
At the time, it was an extremely radical concept--protecting our fundamental individual freedoms to religion, to speech, to assembly, to the right to petition the government, and to have a free press that would opera . . .
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Mr. President, as you know, in 1791, our Nation's Founders had the boldness to ratify the First Amendment to the Constitution.
At the time, it was an extremely radical concept--protecting our fundamental individual freedoms to religion, to speech, to assembly, to the right to petition the government, and to have a free press that would opera . . .