WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) voted in the Senate Finance Committee to advance bipartisan legislation to lower prescription drug costs and expand access to mental health care, including her bipartisan bill to expand Medicare coverage of occupational therapy to improve mental health and addiction treatment and her bipartisan bill to expand access to short-term inpatient treatment at addiction treatment   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: **Kuster applauded a new program that allows World War II veterans to access free health care through the VA** **Kuster also delivered Veterans Day cards to residents, made by Christa McAuliffe Elementary School students** Tilton, N.H. -- Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) honored Veterans Day at the New Hampshire Veterans Home with Granite State servicemembers and their families. Kuster, the da  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: **The full letter can be found here** Washington, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) joined a bicameral group of their colleagues in urging congressional leadership to renew expired funding for child care in any supplemental funding package. Funding the lawmakers passed in the American Rescue Plan Act to allow parents to afford child care and keep their jobs during COVID expired in Septembe  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: (Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter, along with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Daniel Hokanson regarding the recent temporary halt of operations at Pease Air National Guard Base (ANGB) and Pease Internationa  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter, along with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Daniel Hokanson regarding the recent temporary halt of operations at Pease Air National Guard Base (ANGB) and Pease International Airport. The halt   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) applauded $1,966,511 in USDA funding heading to New Hampshire through the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). Reauthorized by the 2018 Farm Bill and further funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, REAP provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agri  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: On Tuesday, November 7, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined a statement on the phrase "from the river to the sea" and the ongoing Hamas-Israel War. The text of the statement reads: "We reject the use of the phrase "from the river to the sea"-- a phrase used by many, including Hamas, as a rallying cry for the destruction of the State of Israel and genocide of the Jewish people. We all feel deep a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) helped secure key New Hampshire priorities in the Senate-passed legislation providing government funding for the Departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. "I am glad we came together on a bipartisan basis in the Senate to pass a government funding bill that includes a number of key priorities that will support veterans  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement on Nov. 9, 2023: * * * Senator Maggie Hassan released the following statement ahead of Veterans Day: "On this Veterans Day, we resolve to honor those who confronted great dangers and bore great burdens to keep us safe and free. Our security and liberty are not won without sacrifice, and history, as well as Hamas's attack on Israel and Putin's invasion of Ukraine, have taught us that evil is not easily d  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan is urging the Air Force to award an honorary, posthumous promotion to Lieutenant Colonel Sean Michael Judge of Kingston, New Hampshire. "Sean had an exemplary career as an airman and a scholar. Recognizing his service and commitment to the Air Force by posthumously awarding him an honorary promotion to Colonel would be in keeping with the traditions of the Air Force and the   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen joined Senate colleagues in urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to closely evaluate two massive, newly announced proposed mergers by the top-two biggest oil companies in the United States, Exxon and Chevron. ExxonMobil's proposed $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and Chevron's proposed $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation ar  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mark Warner (D-VA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) launched a bipartisan working group to examine and propose potential legislative solutions in the HELP Committee jurisdiction to strengthen cybersecurity in the health care and public health sector. This effort co  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and double the Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program, which provides student loan repayment for health care workers who focus on addiction treatment and recovery in underserved areas. This program, which Senators Hassan and Murkowski helped create, is a key part of hel  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: As Iranian oil sales to China continue to help fund Iran's dangerous regime - which also finances Hamas and Hezbollah - the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s bipartisan Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act, which would take additional steps to sanction illicit purchases of Iranian oil and hold the regime's enablers accoun  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced Seth Robert Aframe of Hopkinton, New Hampshire to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and urged them to advance his nomination to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. "As today's testimony showcased, Seth Aframe is extremely qualified to serve as the next judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Watch the discussion in full here. (Washington, DC) - On Sunday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined Adam Sexton on WMUR's CloseUp, to discuss current events, like the developing situation in Israel and Gaza and the war in Ukraine, as well as Shaheen's legislative priorities, including lowering the cost of insulin and continuing to support common-sense gun safety efforts. Key quotes from Sena  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: ** Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States also attended** (Washington, DC)-- Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, hosted Patrick Patterson, a documentary photographer from Newington, New Hampshire, in Washington to exhibit photos Patterson took during his 14 months living i  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Nov. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, secured a commitment from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mayorkas to work with her on the New Hampshire-specific migrant encounter data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that Shaheen has been requesting for months. During her remarks, Shaheen also ra  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: (Washington, DC) - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation and a senior member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, today went to the Senate floor to urge her colleagues to support a comprehensive supplemental funding package that recognizes the breadth of our national security interests, which incl  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: (Washington, DC)-- U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Mike Rounds (R-SD), senior members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin urging the DoD to increase funding necessary to accelerate testing and remediation for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination related to military installations in fisca  more