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Welch says it's also essential that any additional U.S. aid for Israel be used only for purposes that "comply with international humanitarian law."

People in Vermont's Jewish and Palestinian communities are expressing both cautious optimism and lingering concern over the news of a short-term truce between Israel and Hamas.

The extension of the 2018 Farm Bill is part of the short-term budget plan to keep the federal government open for the next few months.

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe, and we need action now,� say Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch.

Sen. Peter Welch said the House's newly-elected speaker is "easy to talk to," but Welch is concerned that Johnson was an active denier of the 2020 election results.

According to a recent CNN poll, two-thirds of “Democratically� leaning voters say they don’t want the party to nominate President Joe Biden for a second term in office next year. Pollsters surveyed about 1,500 voters in late August.

"We understand that there are students who don’t have internet access at home � and a lot of those kids are in rural America,� said Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel in a visit to Vermont.

All three members of Vermont's congressional delegation have strongly condemned Hamas' attack against Israel.

As of Monday, Sen. Peter Welch was among a small group of Democratic senators encouraging their colleague to step down amid federal corruption charges. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined a larger group of Democrats with the same message Tuesday.

The Biden Administration has proposed giving FEMA an extra $16 billion to help recovery efforts in Vermont, Hawaii, Florida and Louisiana. But a group of Congressional Republicans called the House Freedom Caucus are demanding that any supplemental budget bill also include new policies to curb immigration on the Mexican border and limit the power of the Justice Department.