National

From the Office of Senator Welch and Governor Phil Scott:

U.S. Senator Peter Welch, Vermont Governor Phil Scott, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts, and Vermont state and local agriculture stakeholders visit Paul Mazza Fruit & Vegetable in Essex Junction, Vermont to survey damage to the farm and call for coordinated support for Vermont farms at all levels of government. Following the tour, the group is available for a gaggle with press.

From the Office of Senator Welch:

Last night I gave my first major speech on the Senate floor. This is a Senate tradition that allows every new Senator the opportunity to lay out their vision for how Congress can better serve all Americans. I shared my deep love for Vermont and the people that make the Green Mountain State so special. Never has the pride I feel for Vermont been stronger than right now, as neighbors come together to help each other recover from the recent flooding. I spoke about what we all share in the Senate, regardless of party affiliation: the deep respect for the folks we have the honor of representing. And I asked this question: If we share this deep respect for our constituents who all need the same things—access to good health care and affordable child care, good-paying jobs—why can’t we make more progress on these key issues? Why are we so divided?

We face two major challenges: First: Our democracy is more imperiled right now than at any time since the Civil War. Second: Working and middle-class Americans have been treading water economically for the past 40 years. Top-down economic policies have failed them. Democracy depends on trust. It also depends on results. If conditions stagnate for working Americans and they fall further behind, their trust in democracy will erode. And we need democracy to ensure that working families have a seat at the table. My years of service—as a community organizer in Chicago, as a State Senator in Vermont, as your Representative in the House—have taught me that democracy is more than an ideal we strive for; it's the tool we use to make meaningful differences in the lives of people we love and in the lives of people we may never meet. There are so many challenges facing our country right now. But like Vermonters know, we can succeed if we work together.   

From the Office of Becca Balint:

On July 7, as part of the Biden-Harris administration's Investing in America tour, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland travels to Burlington, Vermont, to join Rep. Becca Balint and Senator Peter Welch as they highlight historic investments that are helping drive collaborative conservation initiatives in Vermont and across the nation.

Investments from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda are enabling the Department of the Interior to play a leading role in the transition to a clean energy economy, advancing key habitat restoration, land resilience and water projects, and securing environmental justice for historically disadvantaged communities.

From Melinda Moulton:

Before joining University College London, Robert was a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. In 2013 he was a professor at Portland State University in Oregon from 2010 to 2012. Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at University of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at Chesapeake Biological Lab on Solomons Island MD.

He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and he was founding Chief Editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989, until 2002. Costanza is the founding editor-in-chief of Solutions - a popular hybrid academic journal/magazine. He currently serves on the editorial board of eight other international academic journals and is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. He is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.