PETER WELCH

Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challenging.

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House for the past 16 years has always embraced his role as a liberal Democrat.

Democrats running for office this year in Republican-leaning areas or swing states are grappling with how much they should talk about the Jan. 6 insurrection, if at all.

Democrat Becca Balint could be on the verge of being elected the first woman and first openly gay person to represent Vermont in Congress.

Balint defeated Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, a more centrist candidate who was supported by the state's Democratic establishment.

Ron Johnson, the most vulnerable Republican senator up for reelection this year, will take on Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in a general election matchup that will help determine which party controls the Senate.

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut are holding primary elections Tuesday to decide who's on the ballot for the November midterms.

The leader of the Vermont state Senate Becca Balint could become the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.

In Vermont, there are competitive, open primaries for U.S. Senate and the state's lone U.S. House seat.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won a closer-than-expected Democratic primary race against a centrist challenger who questioned Omar's support for the “defund the police” movement.

Businessman Tim Michels has won Wisconsin's Republican nomination to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race in Tuesday's primary elections features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence.

Parliamentarian nixes Democrats’ plan to lower drug prices for Americans with private insurance.

Vermont Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint are the leading candidates in a Democratic U.S. House primary that could make either of them the first female member of the state's congressional delegation.

Vermont appears poised to lose its distinction of being the only state in the country that has never sent a woman to Congress.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

Around three dozen Democrats were trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6 after the rest of their colleagues had been evacuated, ducking beneath their seats as supporters of former President Donald Trump laid siege.

A year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the lawmakers who were trapped in the upper House balcony that day are still recovering from lingering trauma.

President Joe Biden only rarely talks about last January's violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the conspiratorial lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

But there is some good news for the Democratic Party — its candidates have been outraising Republicans in key battleground races.

Vermont’s sole congressman, Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, says he'll run for Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Senate seat next year.

Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, announced Monday that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. Welch's decision comes a week after the 81-year-old Leahy's announcement that he will not seek reelection to the seat he first won in 1974. The 74-year-old Welch said the 2022 election will determine control of the Senate and, with it, what he can accomplish for Vermont families.

Democrat Patrick Leahy’s announcement that he will retire after eight terms in the Senate has set off a scramble in Vermont over the rare opening in the state’s tiny congressional delegation.

The longest-serving current member of the Senate said he won't seek reelction to the seat he has held for eight terms.

Congressional Democrats are fighting over trillions of dollars, their paramount policy goals and perhaps their political fate.

President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they’ve been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration.

President Joe Biden’s call for authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices has energized Democrats on a politically popular idea they've been pushing for nearly 20 years only to encounter frustration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will need every Democratic vote in a narrowly divided Congress.

A month ago, the U.S. Capitol was besieged by Trump supporters angry about the former president's loss. Law enforcement was badly outnumbered and ill-prepared as thousands of Trump supporters marched from the Ellipse near the White House to the Capitol. AdIn videos and on the House floor, lawmakers have teared up when they recall the events of Jan. 6. There are currently about 7,000 National Guard members in the city providing security. That probably will happen over the next several weeks, allowing Guard members to return home to their jobs, while others take their place,AdTwelve Guard members were either sent home or not allowed to deploy to the District of Columbia as a result of FBI security checks, including some who had ties to extremist groups.

This week, Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), along with Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Peter Welch (D-VT) will introduce the Reopen America Act (RAA), legislation to establish a comprehensive, science-based national plan to re-open the U.S. economy through federal-state collaboration while aggressively protecting the public health against recurring COVID-19 outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruptions to the fabric of American society, commerce, and public health, said Rep. Shalala. While we havent gotten to the end of this crisis, we must start preparing to reopen America in a way that protects public health, restores the economy and takes science-based measures into account. In order to ensure that we can safely resume daily life, we need robust testing, comprehensive contact testing and other safeguards to protect the health of the American people. Congress must provide the strategy and resources necessary for states to reopen for business while protecting their citizens.