Peter Welch
What the money shows
Peter Welch has an estimated net worth of $12.8M. The 2026 campaign raised $218,690. Peter Welch sits on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit and the Constitution.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Bills weighed against funded sectors
Each pan counts bills. Excluded bills are shown beside the scale when the vote or bill direction is unclear.
Labor / Unions
$28K in union money · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Other
$26K in corporate money from other · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Ideological / Leadership
$10K in corporate money from ideological / leadership · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Health & Pharma
$8K in corporate money from health · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Tech & Telecom
$5K in corporate money from tech · 8 roll calls · 2 bills
Agriculture
$5K in corporate money from agriculture · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Retail & Consumer
$3K in corporate money from retail · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Real Estate & Construction
$3K in corporate money from real estate · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Law & Lobbying
$1K in corporate money from law · 0 roll calls · 0 bills
No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
Term history
- SenatorVTDHouse → Senate2023 – 2029 · 6 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2021 – 2023 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2019 – 2021 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2017 – 2019 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2015 – 2017 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2013 – 2015 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2011 – 2013 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2009 – 2011 · 2 yrs
- RepresentativeVT-0D2007 – 2009 · 2 yrs
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
Senator Peter Welch, VT
Born May 2, 1947.
Margaret Rice Cheney is an American politician who served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 2007 until her appointment to the Vermont Public Service Board in 2013. She was the managing editor of Washingtonian from 1978 to 1989, after which she moved to Norwich, Vermont. She is married to U.S. Senator Peter Welch.
Recorded votes
31 votes · 6 Yea · 22 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
Who else Vermont sends to Congress
2 senators and 1 of 1 House seat filled. Counting this seat.
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
Peter Welch · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org | Quoted descriptors for family rows | 2026-07-30 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |