WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) today led a bipartisan, bicameral coalition of colleagues in calling for inclusion of the Reducing Exposure to Burn Pits Act in the final version of this year's National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (NDAA). The bipartisan provision, which was included in the Senate-passed NDAA, builds upon the Honoring our PACT Act and would help protect service  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2023: Today, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with 33 fellow Senators, and 78 colleagues in the House of Representatives, introduced the Child Care Stabilization Act to extend vital federal child care stabilization funding - which is set   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, announced Thursday that they have reached a deal on landmark legislation to address the primary care crisis in America and the major shortages of nurses, primary   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following statement on Sept. 12, 2023: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Tuesday issued the following statement on the corporate media's coverage of the negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big 3 carmakers: One of the major crises facing our country is that eight large media conglomerates control 90 percent of what the Ame  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2023: Secured by former Senator and Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) through the Congressionally Directed Spending Process, the Vermont Congressional Delegation today announced $9.9 million will be invested in the Burlington School District to educate and train the next generation in aviation and aerospace manufacturing. Administered by the United Sta  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) on Monday sent a letter to majority, minority, and Appropriations Committee leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives urging them to ensure that Congress passes federal funding for essential recovery and long-term disaster mitigation work in Vermont following the devastating flooding that hit the state this summe  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2023: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) on Monday sent a letter to majority, minority, and Appropriations Committee leadership in the Senate and House of Representatives urging them to ensure that Congress passes federal funding for essential recovery and long-term disaster mitigation work in Vermont following the devastating flooding that hit t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following fact sheet: * * * The Child Care Stabilization Act Our nation is facing a child care crisis. Child care has long been unaffordable and hard to find for working families. Many child care programs struggle to stay in business and can only afford to pay their early childhood educators poverty-level wages. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the already fragile child care sector to the brink of collapse. Congress responded by   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following commentary to The Guardian on Sept. 12, 2023: * * * The United Auto Workers May Soon Strike. Every American Should Support Them In the United States today, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower than they were 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation. In other words, despite a massive increase in worker productivity, despite CEOs now   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: JOHNSON, VT - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) joined Governor Phil Scott, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chris Saunders of the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC), Johnson Selectboard Chair Beth Foy,and community leaders, in the Town of Johnson, Vermont, to celebrate the town's award of a NBRC's Catalyst Award--a $10.8 million grant program across 13 projects to revitalize Vermont's rural communi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with 33 fellow Senators, and 78 colleagues in the House of Representatives, introduced the Child Care Stabilization Act to extend vital federal chil  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 12, 2023: * * * Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Tuesday issued the following statement on the corporate media's coverage of the negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big 3 carmakers: One of the major crises facing our country is th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, announced Thursday that they have reached a deal on landmark legislation to address the primary care crisis in   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following catastrophic flooding in Vermont, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Representative Becca Balint (D-VT) today introduced the Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience (BUFFER) Act, legislation that would ensure all states, including Vermont, can access Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) funding to implement buffer zones, agricultural tools use  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2023: Following catastrophic flooding in Vermont, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Representative Becca Balint (D-VT) today introduced the Building Up Farmland Frontiers for Ecological Resilience (BUFFER) Act, legislation that would ensure all states, including Vermont, can access Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) funding to implement buffer zones, agricultural tools use  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: BURLINGTON, VT - Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Representative Becca Balint (VT-AL) today announced five Vermont organizations received federal investments through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Community Facilities Grants, which support and strengthen rural development in Vermont and across America. The USDA Community Facilities Grants will support projects in the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Last week, in advance of the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) joined Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier for the show's Common Ground segment, to discuss the bipartisan Ensuring Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.  "[The Ensuring Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act] is important, and just to step back for a minute: th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate this week to urge his colleagues to advance the Credit Card Competition Act, bipartisan legislation he co-introduced with Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS); and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to restore choice and competition to the credit card market and bring down costs for small businesses in Vermont and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) took to the Senate floor to call out Big Pharma's fear-mongering and scare tactics about Congressional Democrats and the White House's fight to lower prescription drug costs for seniors. The White House recently unveiled the first ten prescription drugs that will be negotiated under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a policy proposal Sen. Welch fought fo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) released the following statement commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. On this day in 1993, the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn--a watershed moment in the quest for peace in the Middle East. Upon the signing of the historic Accords--Oslo I in Washington, D.C.,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: Secured by former Senator and Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) through the Congressionally Directed Spending Process, the Vermont Congressional Delegation today announced $9.9 million will be invested in the Burlington School District to educate and train the next generation in aviation and aerospace manufacturing. Administered by the United States Department of Commerce's   more