Representative Peter Welch (D)

Current Office: Representative
District: VT-At-Large
First Elected: 11/07/2006
Next Election: 2012
Party: Democratic

General

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Margaret Cheney; 5 Children, 3 Stepchildren
Birth date: 05/02/1947
Birthplace: Springfield, MA
Home City: Hartland VT
Religion: Catholic

Profession

Founding Partner, Welch, Graham and Manby Attorney Public Defender

Education

JD, Public Interest Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1973 AB, Holy Cross College, 1969

Committees

Agriculture
Oversight and Government Reform
Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations
Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture
Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs

Recent Votes

HR 4310 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

H Amdt 1127 Repeals Indefinite Military Detention Provisions
Stage: Amendment Vote
Vote: Yea

HR 4310 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

H Amdt 1127 Repeals Indefinite Military Detention Provisions
Stage: Amendment Vote
Vote: Yea

H Amdt 1140 Prohibits Reductions to Strategic Nuclear Arms Required by New START
Stage: Amendment Vote
Vote: -

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