WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter this week with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and 11 Senators to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking transparency and information regarding the distribution process for the COVID-19 therapeutic remdesivir. Shaheen and the Senators cited significant concerns raised by hospitals, health providers, patients and medical societies rega  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following calls from Senator Hassan and her colleagues, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) partnered together to launch a new website to help renters and homeowners learn more about all the resources and assistance available to them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The website details new housing  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, May 14 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: The U.S. House of Representatives announced that they will be considering the next COVID-19 relief package Friday morning. That package includes an estimated $1.5 billion in direct federal aid to New Hampshire localities through 2021, following a request Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Annie Kuster (NH-02) led just earlier this week. Last week, Pappas and Kuster were joined by ev  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) issued the following statements after TRICARE announced it would expand coverage for telehealth services amid the COVID-19 crisis. This announcement came after Shaheen and McSally called on the Defense Health Agency (DHA) last week to cover the full scope of telehealth services under TRICARE. The Senators argued that Medicare and Medicaid l  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, May 14 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02), member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, released the following statement after a number of provisions proposed in her "Roadmap to Recovery" were included in the new coronavirus response package. Rep. Kuster has been in close contact with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone and House leadership to advocate for policies impor  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 14: Congresswoman Annie Kuster questioned Dr. Richard Bright, the former federal vaccine chief who filed a whistleblower complaint last week after being removed from his position as Director of the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority (BARDA). In a hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Rep. Kuster asked Dr. Bright about his role as director of BARDA; America'  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire is receiving $61,056,792 million for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing from the latest response bill that was signed into law. "Widespread testing and contact tracing are an absolute necessity to re-opening our economy and getting life back to some  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire has received $4,055,624 in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire is set to receive $6,768,870 in assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). LIHEAP is a federally funded program that provides eligible households with help paying a portion of their energy bills. The program provided assist  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement on May 15 prior to voting on the House's proposed COVID-19 response package: "I am supporting the Heroes Act today because our frontline workers, first responders, and community members are rising to the occasion and so must Congress," said Congressman Pappas. "No bill is perfect, but we are living through an unprecedented crisis and if we fail to redouble and refine our efforts, the public health threat wi  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Drawing on conversations with hundreds of business leaders from across New Hampshire over the past two months, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) proposed recommendations to help ensure that the Payroll Protection Program (PPP) will more effectively serve the needs of Granite State small businesses. PPP provides small businesses with zero-fee loans of up to $10 million and allows up to 8 weeks of averag  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) to announce that New Hampshire is receiving $61,056,792 million for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing from the latest response bill that was signed into law. "Having a comprehensive testing and contact tracing strategy is essential if we are going to reopen our e  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) discussed the cybersecurity threats to COVID-19 response efforts and the role that the National Guard plays in supporting critical cybersecurity efforts. The hearing included leaders of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which recently released its comprehensive report on cyber deterrence. To watch Senator Ha  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: As a member of the bipartisan White House task force to reopen the economy, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan participated in a call with a bipartisan group of Senators and White House officials, including the Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow, on what is needed to safely begin to reopen more parts of the economy. "As a member of the White House's bipartisan task force, I pushed administ  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 12: Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, about what testing capacity is necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities across the country and in nursing homes in particular. Senator Hassan also addressed the importance of the administration preparing now to ma  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following conversations with businesses and non-profits in New Hampshire, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan urged the Trump administration to quickly provide guidance to New Hampshire's small businesses and non-profits regarding forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program loans. Nearly 22,000 employers in New Hampshire have received assistance through the Paycheck Protection Program, totaling more than $2.6 bi  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives to announce the bicameral Emergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act of 2020. The bill would establish an Emergency Rental Assistance program to provide $100 billion in emergency rental assistance to help families and individuals pay their rent and remain  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on March 12: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash,), and Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) led 39 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in introducing the Emergency Educational Connections Act, legislation aimed at ensuring all K-12 students  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire will receive $6,052,440 in federal grants established under the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was passed by Congress and signed into law. Specifically, $4,679,946 was awarded through the U.S. Department o  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced today that New Hampshire has received $4,055,624 in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other nationa  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire is set to receive $6,768,870 in assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). LIHEAP is a federally funded program that provides eligible households with help paying a portion of their energy bills. The program provided as  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the lead Democrat on the Senate subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice (DOJ), called on Attorney General William Barr to explain the Department's delay in submitting a report to Congress which is mandated by legislation that Senator Shaheen authored to collect and report data on police suicides. The report on the DOJ's plan to accomplish this data colle  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter with a group of 22 Senators calling on the Trump administration to provide a detailed briefing to Congress and the American people regarding their strategy to produce and distribute a coronavirus vaccine as soon as one is available. "The production and distribution of a successful COVID-19 vaccine or vaccines may be the most extensive and important pub  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 13: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) held a conference call with Granite State mayors and town managers representing communities throughout New Hampshire to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Granite State communities. The conference call continued Shaheen's telework efforts to communicate with leaders all across the State who are responding to this public health emergency, including small busi  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 11: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and a bipartisan group of Senators called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately work to ensure SNAP participants can receive home food delivery and curbside pickup during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the letter to USDA, the Senators wrote, "The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented rise in unemployment and a subsequent incre  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), along with 19 of their Republican and Democratic colleagues, called on Senate leadership to provide additional support to child care workers and providers across the country. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), the biparti  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: As more than 20,000 nursing homes residents and workers have died due to COVID-19 and at a time when nursing home residents account for more than 70 percent of COVID-19 deaths in New Hampshire, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) last week to propose a bill that would provide $20 billion to help states, nursing homes and intermediate c  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and a group of Senators in a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, urging him to reject politically motivated conditions on financial relief for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), including privatization. The Senators expressed their strong opposition to the use of coronavirus as a pretext to pursue privatiza  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire will receive $6,052,440 in federal grants established under the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was passed by Congress and signed into law. Specifically, $4,679,946 was awarded through the U.S. Department   more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire is receiving $61,056,792 million for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing from the latest response bill that was signed into law. "Widespread testing and contact tracing are an absolute necessity to re-opening our economy and getting life back to  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire has received $4,055,624 in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national ser  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire is set to receive $6,768,870 in assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). LIHEAP is a federally funded program that provides eligible households with help paying a portion of their energy bills. The program provided a  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 14: Yesterday, the Senate unanimously passed legislation cosponsored by U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) that would establish a three-digit national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act would designate 9-8-8 as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and include the Veterans Crisis Line for veteran-specifi  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen ensuring that if a law enforcement officer or first responder loses their life or is permanently disabled due to COVID-19, it is treated as a line-of-duty incident so that their families receive the full benefits that they deserve. "Law enforcement officers and first responders are on the  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan ensuring that if a law enforcement officer or first responder loses their life or is permanently disabled due to COVID-19, it is treated as a line-of-duty incident so that their families receive the full benefits that they deserve. "Our law enforcement officers and other first responder  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 13: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) yesterday co-sponsored the Safeguarding America's First Responders Act (SAFR), legislation that clarifies the certification requirements for survivor benefits under the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to account for the unique challenges presented by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. "Our public safety officer  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and a bipartisan group of their colleagues to introduce the Improving Social Security's Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act to provide more efficient help to Americans whose social security numbers have been misused following an identity theft. Misuse of Social Security numbers is a large and growing pro  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) are working to provide financial relief to Medicaid providers who support and care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In a bipartisan letter to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the senators are requesting relief for Medicaid Home and Community Based S  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) - both members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee - are calling on the White House Coronavirus Task Force to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release full reopening guidelines. The Senators' letter to Vice President Mike Pence comes after reports that the White House shelved detailed reopening  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined the entire Senate Democratic caucus in filing an amicus brief defending the Affordable Care Act in the case of California v. Texas (formerly Texas v. Azar). The case, brought by several Republican attorneys general and supported by the Trump administration, is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and could result in as many   more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined colleagues in urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prevent hospitals from collecting medical debt by taking part of a patient's paycheck--known as wage garnishment--during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to deny emergency relief funds to hospitals engaging in this practice. "We write to express serious concerns with  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) announced that they'll introduce legislation to reduce interest rates and modify repayment obligations for health care providers who've sought financial assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic through Medicare's Accelerated and Advance Payments Program. This program was expanded under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CAR  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) invite New Hampshire students interested in attending any of the country's military service academies to attend a virtual New Hampshire Military Service Academy Day on Tuesday, May 19th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The online event will feature staff representatives for Senators Shaheen and Hassan and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Ch  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined the entire Senate Democratic caucus in filing an amicus brief defending the Affordable Care Act in the case of California v. Texas (formerly Texas v. Azar). The case, brought by several Republican attorneys general and supported by the Trump administration, is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and could result in as many  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined colleagues in urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prevent hospitals from collecting medical debt by taking part of a patient's paycheck--known as wage garnishment--during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to deny emergency relief funds to hospitals engaging in this practice. "We write to express serious concerns wit  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Jim Risch (R-ID) advocated for increased small business-led research related to the coronavirus pandemic and response in a series of letters to the Trump administration on Monday. The Senators wrote to the eleven federal agencies that participate in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STT  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) welcomed reports that the President has taken steps to prevent the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) from moving forward with a short-sighted decision to invest billions of dollars from the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) -- the retirement assets of federal government employees, including members of the U.S. Armed Forces -- in opaqu  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 13: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) welcomed the announcement by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) that it would halt its short-sighted decision to invest billions of dollars from the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) -- the retirement assets of federal government employees, including members of the U.S. Armed Forces -- in opaque Chinese firms engaged in h  more