WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Baldwin, Welch Lead Colleagues in Spotlighting Devastating Trump Cuts Jeopardizing Cures for Alzheimer's Disease, Cancers Witnesses, including Former NIH Director, highlight how deep cuts, staffing layoffs, and delayed funding at NIH hurt life-saving research WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) hosted a forum on Capitol Hill titled "Cures in Crisis: What  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Rep. Balint, Joins Senator Tina Smith and Rep. Andrea Salinas to Demand RFK Jr. Rescind Harmful Comments on Mental Illness, Anti-Depression Medications Washington, D.C. - Last week, Rep. Becca Balint joined Rep. Andrea Salinas (OR-06) and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) in leading their colleagues in a bicameral letter demanding the Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Ken more PR

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * MEDIA ADVISORY: Sanders to Hold Roundtable Discussion with Student Finalists of his Fifteenth Annual State of the Union Essay Contest BURLINGTON, Vt., March 24 - Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday will hold a roundtable discussion with the student finalists of his fifteenth annual State of the Union Essay Contest at the Vermont State House. This year, 475 students from 25 Vermont high schools submi more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEW REPORT: Trump Leaves Over 46 Million Students Without Protection from Discrimination WASHINGTON, March 27 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report finding that the Trump administration has left more than 46 million students in 27 states and territories without dedicated investigators to p more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: Sanders Announces Senate Votes to Block Arms Sales to Israel U.S. Senate 332 Dirksen Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-5141 Fax: 202-228-0776 *** Original text here: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-announces-senate-votes-to-block-arms-sales-to-israel/ more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: Sanders Statement on Trump's Firing of 10,000 HHS Workers WASHINGTON, March 27 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after Elon Musk and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced they would gut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by recklessly firing 10,000 emplo more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news: * * * Sanders Statement on Trump's Firing of 10,000 HHS Workers WASHINGTON, March 27 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after Elon Musk and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced they would gut the U.S. Depart more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, issued the following floor remarks on March 25, 2025: * * * Mr. President, in the last couple of weeks, I have had the opportunity to travel in many parts of our country, and I have been able to talk to folks in Nebraska, in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. What I am hearing from in all of these States and, in fact, all over the country is that our Nation right now faces enormous crises-unprecedented crises in th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following floor remarks on March 25, 2025: * * * 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 operate without fear or government censorship. more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, ranking minority member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news on March 27, 2025: * * * Trump Leaves Over 46 Million Students Without Protection from Discrimination WASHINGTON, March 27 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a new report finding that the Trump administration has left more than  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Announces Experts on First Amendment and Freedom of the Press as Witnesses for Hearing on So-Called 'Censorship Industrial Complex' Welch: "Newsflash for my colleagues across the aisle: their claims of a 'vast cover-up' against conservatives will get debunked as quickly as their claims about supporting free speech." WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Joins Warren, Pressley, Markey, Congressional Democrats Demanding Explanation for "Disturbing Arrest and Detention" of Tufts University Student Student seemingly arrested for her political views, lawmakers demand due process and answers WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Senator Ed Markey  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch on Trump's Rollback of Pollution Standards, Firing of EPA Scientists: "It's not their intention to reform it or improve it--it's their intention to destroy it." WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, this week took to the Senate Floor to speak out against President Trump's efforts to he more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Reaction to Antidemocratic Trump Order to Prevent Americans from Voting WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and a member of the Rules Committee, released the following reaction to President Trump's Executive Order, signed this week seeking to deny the right to vote to eligible citizens. The order would require the  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Reaction to Noem Saying, "We Are Going to Eliminate FEMA." WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today during President Trump's Cabinet meeting, Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said, "We are going to eliminate FEMA." Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) released the following reaction: "The Trump Administration's grand plan for victims of natural disasters is to abandon them--and it's a complete non-starte more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Speaks on Finance Committee's Investigation into Pfizer's Tax Scheme: "What we're talking about today proves that the suspicion that Vermonters have about things being rigged--they're right." WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, this week took to the Senate Floor to highlight the Senate Finance Committee's new report that found Pfizer, w more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch Stands Up Against Trump Administration's First Amendment Hypocrisy: "Our obligation...is to defend the rights of people to have free speech--whether they agree with our political position or they don't." WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, yesterday took to the Senate floor and called on Congress to defend more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch, Blackburn, King Introduce Bicameral States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment (SHARE) Act to Improve Interstate Health Care Workforce Licensing WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment (SHARE) Act, bipartisan legislation to improve intersta more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, issued the following news release: * * * Welch, Booker, Colleagues Introduce Honor Farmer Contracts Act WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) this week joined Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and 15 of his Democratic colleagues in introducing the Honor Farmer Contracts Act, legislation to release illegally withheld funding for all contracts and agreements previously entered into by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Pres more PR