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Peter Welch

D

Sen. VT · U.S. Senate · 9 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
98%
98/100 · beats 56% of the Senate
Votes missed live
2
of the last 100 Senate roll calls
Committees live
4
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Welch sits more conservative than 16% of the Senate and more liberal than 83%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
85%
Broke with the party on 2 of 13 recent votes where the party had a clear position.
Their positions, in their own words

We link to what Welchsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

www.welch.senate.gov
D.C. office: 202-224-4242
115 Russell Senate Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$219K
From PACs
16.7%
$37K
From individuals
33%
$72K
Cash on hand
$1.6M

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA (LIUNA) PACLabor$5K
  • DELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$5K
  • NATIONAL ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS PAC/ INTN'L UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS (NEC PAC)Labor$5K
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENROLLED AGENTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$5K
  • CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$4K
  • DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE; AKA DFA-PACCooperative$3K
  • WINE AND SPIRITS WHOLESALERS OF AMERICA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$3K
  • INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS INTERESTED IN REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION PACLabor$3K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Labor30%
  • Trade25%
  • Corporate20%
  • Membership15%
  • Cooperative6%
  • Other / unclassified5%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Labor unions$15K
  • Technology$5K
  • Telecom & media$4K
  • Food, beverage & restaurants$4K
  • Energy & utilities$3K
  • Agriculture$3K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 33% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Welch's campaign has spent $206K across 371 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • ADP$62K
  • INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE$36K
  • NGP VAN$30K
  • KIELOCH CONSULTING$14K
  • BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF VT$14K
  • ELIAS LAW GROUP$10K
Fundraising & event venues
  • POMERLEAU, ERNEST A.BURLINGTON, VT$3K
  • LEBANESE TAVERNAFAIRFAX, VA · 2 payments$758
  • POPPY CAFEBURLINGTON, VT · 2 payments$456
  • DISTRICT TACOWASHINGTON, DC$222
  • HOTEL VERMONTBURLINGTON, VT$52

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Background

Represents Vermont · age 79 · from Springfield.

Peter Francis Welch is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Vermont. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Vermont's at-large congressional district from 2007 to 2023. He has been a major figure in Vermont politics for over four decades and is only the second Democrat to represent Vermont in the Senate, after his predecessor, Patrick Leahy.

Before Congress
lawyerjuristmember of parliament
Education
College of the Holy CrossUniversity of California, Berkeley School of LawPope Francis Preparatory School
Family
Margaret Cheney

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

Stock trades

Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Welch's filings:

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

How Peter actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Sat 8
weekend
Sun 9
weekend
Mon 10
August recess
Tue 11
August recess
Wed 12
August recess
Thu 13
August recess
Fri 14
August recess
Sat 15
August recess
Sun 16
August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

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Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through August 5, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.