WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today joined U.S. Senators Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, in introducing the Fostering the Availability in Rural Markets of (FARM) Home Loans Act of 2026, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to spur rural economic growth by helping more homebuyers qualify for rural housing assistance. The Senators' legislation would modernize housing assistance eligibility requirements and help nearly 30 million homebuyers-including almost 100,000 Vermonters-acces...