WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) wrote an op-ed in the Union Leader today taking aim at myths around modernizing building energy codes and urging the State of New Hampshire to use federal funding that she helped secure in the Inflation Reduction Act. Shaheen notes that adopting modern energy codes would make housing more affordable, help meet energy needs and save Granite Staters money on their utility  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), founder and co-chair of the Bipartisan Task Force to End Sexual Violence, hosted a roundtable discussion with other members of Congress, advocates, and survivors of sexual assault. During the roundtable, the group discussed the need for policy reforms to remove barriers that impede survivors of sexual abuse and violence from seeking accountability and justice and   more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) participated in an Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing titled "Legislative Proposals to Increase Medicaid Access and Improve Program Integrity." During her remarks, Kuster urged her colleagues to support her bipartisan Rehabilitation and Recovery During Incarceration Act. The legislation would reform the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion policy, which bars c  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Concord, N.H. -- Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) issued a statement following the arrest of 90 students and protesters at Dartmouth College last night: "I am aware that a group of students and protesters were arrested at Dartmouth College last night, and we are monitoring the situation carefully. "Like many Americans, I was shocked by the vile attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians last October   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today, New Democrat Coalition Members led a total of 63 New Dem signers on four separate letters to the House Appropriations Committee outlining the Coalition's priorities related to immigration and border security, public safety, agriculture and rural development, and affordable housing for the upcoming Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations process. "Across these four letters, New Dems are fighting to deliver   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior appropriator on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Labor-Health and Human Services (L-HHS) Subcommittee, announced today with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) that $29,880,604 in State Opioid Response (SOR) grants are now   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior appropriator on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Labor-Health and Human Services (L-HHS) Subcommittee, announced today with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) that $29,880,604 in State Opioid Response (SOR) grants are   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement after voting to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023: "As antisemitic incidents in the United States continue to rise at alarming rates, including disturbing acts of vandalism and graffiti here in New Hampshire, we must all stand united and say with one voice that there is no place for antisemitism in this country. Today and  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01), Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11), Dina Titus (NV-01), co-chairs and vice co-chairs of the Hellenic Caucus, introduced the End the Cyprus Embargo Act, bipartisan legislation that would extend the waiver renewal period for the arms embargo on the Republic of Cyprus from one year to five years. This change will bolster the historic growth in U.S.-  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congressman Tracey Mann (KS-01) introduced the End Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Act of 2024. This bipartisan legislation would create a national ignition interlock standard by encouraging states to adopt mandatory first-time offender ignition interlock laws, which help reduce recidivism and improve road safety by ensuring fewer drunk drivers are on the road.  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2024: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) called for UnitedHealth Group to immediately notify patients that their data was potentially stolen in the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing today. Senator Hassan also secured a commitment from Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, to remove or waive "exclusivity" clau  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) this week received an update on upcoming projects to upgrade the Manchester VA Medical Center from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough at a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing. Senator Hassan began by highlighting her continued push for the VA to build a full-service facility in New Hampshire, as well as the need for repairs to the Manc  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) has been named the most bipartisan member of Congress by the nonpartisan Common Ground Committee. Senator Hassan is the first elected official to ever receive a perfect score on the committee's scorecard of those who embody the spirit of bipartisanship and find common ground and areas of agreement with others. "Our democracy works best when our leaders are able to come  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced historic, comprehensive new bipartisan legislation that would be the most expansive effort so far to boost federal research on menopause and would--for the first time--coor  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) urged GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a major pharmaceutical company, to uphold its pledge to limit out-of-pocket prices for inhalers to $35 by restoring affordable access to Flovent, the most common inhaler used by children for asthma. It is one of the only inhalers that infants and young children can use. At the end of 2023, GSK stopped manufacturing Flovent directly and pull  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following a recent statement by UnitedHealth Group that cybercriminals obtained the sensitive health data of patients in a ransomware attack on the company, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is pushing UnitedHealth Group to take immediate steps to provide protection for patients whose data may have been stolen. Senator Hassan identified four specific steps that UnitedHealth Group needs to take to fulfil  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan yesterday visited Girls At Work, an organization dedicated to helping girls learn and develop self-confidence and new skills. While visiting their program space in Manchester, Senator Hassan discussed Girls at Work's goals with the organization's leadership team. Senator Hassan also met girls participating in Girls at Work's new STEAM program, which consists of workshops desig  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $28,650,000 from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to help New Hampshire identify and replace lead service lines, preventing exposure to lead in drinking water. Lead can cause a range of serious health impacts, including irreversible harm to brain development in children. To protect children and families, President Bide  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today was joined by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, and local officials at the New Hampshire SBA Award Ceremony in Derry, New Hampsh  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Committee, led a resolution that recognizes the week of April 28, 2024, through May 4, 2024, as "National Small Business Week." The resolution today passe  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Tim Scott (R-SC) will introduce the Medicaid VBPs for Patients (MVP) Act to help provide life-saving treatments and cures for rare disease patients. This bill would enable state Medicaid programs to voluntarily enter value-based purchasing (VBP) arrangements with drug manufacturers, which wou  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today was joined by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, and local officials at the New Hampshire SBA Award Ceremony in Derry, New Hampshire, to celebrate the Granite State's 2024 Small Business Award winn  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) recently cosponsored the bipartisan Homes for Every Local Protector Educator and Responder (HELPER) Act, which would create a first-time homebuyer loan program under the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for teachers, law enforcement, and first responders who have served at least four years in their respective role. "Teachers, law enfor  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, secured more than $100 million for 101 New Hampshire projects in the final government funding bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024. The federal investments, appropriated through the Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) process, will go towards a range of Granite State priorities throughout the state, including wat  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chair of the Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee, met with members of Georgia's Foreign Affairs Committee and the Georgian Ambassador to the United States, David Zalkaliani. The meeting follows the Parliament of Georgia's re-introduction of a Russian-style bill that would severely limit f  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: (Dover, NH) - Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice (DOJ), visited the Dover Police Department to meet with Chief William Breault and members of the Dover Police Social Work Unit to learn more about the Department's innovative approach to addressing mental health emergencies, homelessness and substance use  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: ***Shaheen secured $2 million in Congressionally Directed Spending for HAVEN in the Fiscal Year 2023 government funding legislation*** (Portsmouth, NH) - Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), toured the future site of a project led by   more