WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Rep. Becca Balint Joins Bicameral Spotlight Hearing to Hold Trump Accountable Washington, D.C. - On Monday, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, for a bicameral spotlight hearing to demand answers on the Trump Administration's attacks on the rule of  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders to Join Domestic Care Workers from Across the Country for a Town Hall WASHINGTON, April 10 - As the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress plan massive cuts to Medicaid, which supports home care for millions of seniors and Americans with disabilities, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HEL  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: Sanders Statement on Trump Tariff Announcement WASHINGTON, April 9 - After Trump posted o n social media yet another change to his sweeping global tariffs, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement: As someone who strongly opposed disastrous unfettered free trade deals with China, Mexico and other low-wage countries, I understand that we need trade policies that ben  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: Sanders, 30 Senate Colleagues Demand Trump Reinstate Workers Providing Critical Heating Assistance to Americans WASHINGTON, April 11 - After President Donald Trump and Elon Musk arbitrarily fired every worker in the office that helps working class families with children and seniors on fixed incomes stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: Sanders, Scott, 174 Colleagues Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $17 by 2030, Benefitting Nearly 22 Million Americans WASHINGTON, April 8 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, alongside 32 colleagues  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on April 7, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, this week we learned that 75 percent of the men on that plane to El Salvador, the men who President Trump claimed were the worst of the worst, were, in fact, not hardened criminals. Are we surprised that it was another example of optics over evidence? Mr. Speaker, 75 percent of these men had no criminal charges in the United  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Becca Balint Launches Monopoly Busters Caucus as Founding Member Washington, D.C - Today, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) joined her Democratic colleagues to launch the Monopoly Busters Caucus. The Monopoly Busters Caucus will help promote a pro consumer, pro worker, and pro small business economic agenda, ensuring members have support to better communicate Democratic work to combat corporate consolid  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Becca Balint Votes No on Budget with Hundreds of Billions in Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Washington, D.C - Today, Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) voted no on the Republican Budget. The Republican budget provides trillions in tax cuts for the rich but does nothing to lower costs for American families. It increases the deficit while inflicting pain on the most vulnerable, while raising the deb  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news: * * * Sanders, 30 Senate Colleagues Demand Trump Reinstate Workers Providing Critical Heating Assistance to Americans WASHINGTON, April 11 - After President Donald Trump and Elon Musk arbitrarily fired every worker in the office that helps working class families with children and seniors on fixed incomes stay warm in the wint  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news: * * * Sanders, Scott, 174 Colleagues Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $17 by 2030, Benefitting Nearly 22 Million Americans WASHINGTON, April 8 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member o  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following floor remarks on April 9, 2025: * * * Mr. President, it has been 3 1/2 years since August 30, 2021, when the last American forces withdrew from Afghanistan. The withdrawal was, by any objective measure, a total fiasco. However, the Biden administration does deserve some credit for evacuating at least 120,000 Afghans in those chaotic days after the Taliban overran Kabul. It was one of the largest--if not the largest-hum  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Question Trump Administration on U.S. Liability for Aiding and Abetting Netanyahu's Potential War Crimes WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the bombing campaign carried out by Israeli Prime Ministe  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Vermont Congressional Delegation Calls on HHS to Reinstate Fired Workers and Protect Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) LIHEAP provides heating assistance for more than 26,000 Vermonters WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Vermont Congressional Delegation, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At Large) called on the Department  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Calls Out Trump Administration for Abandoning Afghan Refugees Facing Persecution WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) yesterday spoke on the Senate Floor on how President Trump's January 20 th Executive Order suspending admission to the United States for Afghan refugees has left vulnerable families stranded and abandoned thousands who face persecution. In his remarks, Senator W  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Cosponsors Bipartisan Recreational Trails Program (RTP) Full Funding Act WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), James Risch (R-Idaho), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) to introduce the Recreational Trails Program Full Funding Act, bipartisan legislat  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Demands Answers from Trade Representative on Trump's Trade War: "This is utter chaos, arbitrary and willful on the part of the President." WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a contentious Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) demanded answers from U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer on how President Trump's destructive trade war has created global economic chaos and ha  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Joins Schiff, Raskin for Bicameral Spotlight Hearing on the Trump Administration's Attacks on the Rule of Law WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today joined U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, for a bi  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Joins Van Hollen, 23 Senate Colleagues in Letter Demanding Answers, Return of Maryland Father Wrongfully Deported to El Salvador WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 23 Senators in writing to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tedd Lyons urging them to return Ki  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Leads Bicameral Letter Raising Alarm Over Escalating Violence in West Bank, Assault of Hamdan Ballal Ballal is an Oscar-winning co-director of the documentary No Other Land WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) today led 29 of their bicameral colleagues in raising the alarm over escalating violence in the West Bank. In a letter   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Leads Bipartisan Legislation to Repeal Trump's Ruinous Global Tariffs WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Leads Eight Lawyers on Judiciary Committee in Commending Law Firms that have Resisted Trump's Unconstitutional Executive Orders WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, this week led eight lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee in sending a letter to the American Bar Association (ABA), commending lawyers and  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Leads Every Northeastern Senator in Bipartisan Request for Answers on Reports White House May Eliminate Regional FEMA Office WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) led 11 of his Northeastern colleagues in requesting answers from President Trump on reports that the White House is considering a proposal to eliminate certain Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) regional   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Statement on Trump Pausing Certain Tariffs WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today released the following statement on President Trump pausing certain tariffs for 90 days: "President Trump's decision is an acknowledgement of what we've said from day one: nobody wins in a trade war. Tariffs are a tax on Vermont businesses, farmers, an  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch, Colleagues Release Bipartisan Legislation to Repeal Trump's Ruinous Global Tariffs WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee,joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in releasing a bipartisan resol  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch, King, Castor Introduce Bicameral Bill to Boost Investment in Grid-Enhancing Technologies, Increase U.S. Power Grid Capacity WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) joined U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL-14 ) in introducing the Advancing Grid-Enhancing Technologies Act, bicameral legislation to boost investments in grid-enhancing technologies (  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch, Padilla, Durbin Lead Colleagues in Demanding Answers on Dismantling of U.S. Refugee Admissions Program Senators to Secretaries Rubio and Noem: "These actions undermine America's longstanding commitment to humanitarian protection and place thousands of vulnerable individuals--many of whom served alongside U.S. armed forces--at grave risk" WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-  more