Peter Welch

20 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2007

• Senator VT 2023–present
• Representative VT 2007–2023

• role Junior United States senator from Vermont since 2023
• role U.S. representative for Vermont's at-large district from 2007 to 2023
• background Lawyer; practiced as public defender and personal injury lawyer
• role Vermont Senate president 2003-2007; first Democrat to hold president pro tempore position (1985-1989)
• achievement Succeeded Bernie Sanders in U.S. House (2006) and Patrick Leahy in U.S. Senate (2022)
• achievement Oldest person to become a freshman U.S. senator at age 75

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 94.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 890 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 82
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 612 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 82 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 99%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 736 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 1%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 13
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

• 106
  Disclosed stock trades →

  47 tickers · 11 in a sector a committee they sit on oversees

  Disclosed trades are legally required public filings (STOCK Act), not evidence of wrongdoing; trades may be executed by a manager or held in a blind trust.

• 6
  Documented relationships →

  neutral overlap signals (e.g., committee oversight of a traded sector)

  A documented relationship is a factual overlap in the public record — NOT evidence of wrongdoing.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Peter Welch. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Constitution Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Rural Development, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Ranking Member · oversees Energy
• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
• Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights Subcommittee
• Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology Subcommittee · oversees Energy, Technology
• Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee
• Finance Committee
• Judiciary Committee · oversees Technology
• Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety Subcommittee
• Rules and Administration Committee
• Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Health Care Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Intellectual Property Subcommittee

Data from FEC — PAC (political action committee) contributions, 2026/2024/2022 cycles

Total disclosed PAC money: $1,041,253. Industry is approximated from a curated map; individual (non-PAC) donations are listed separately above.

• Health $40,500 · 9 PACs
• Finance $17,500 · 4 PACs
• Energy $9,500 · 3 PACs
• Technology $2,500 · 1 PAC
• Telecom $2,500 · 2 PACs
• Defense $1,000 · 1 PAC

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• AbortionOppose from votes
• Climate & EnergyPartial support from votes
• Criminal JusticePartial support from votes
• DefensePartial oppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesPartial oppose from votes
• EducationPartial support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial oppose from votes
• HealthcarePartial oppose from votes
• HousingPartial oppose from votes
• Technology & PrivacyOppose from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Welch most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Welch connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov