U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Equality Caucus, and Senator Edward J. Markey announced the reintroduction of the LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act, legislation that would ban using panic defenses based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression in federal courts. ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the lead negotiator of broadband provisions in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobst Act (IIJA) and Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Commerce, announced with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and U.S. ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation, the END FENTANYL Act, that Senator Maggie Hassan and colleagues introduced to target fentanyl trafficking at the border. This legislation would require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ...
MANCHESTER – The United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the 50-year-old federal right to an abortion established under Roe v. Wade and upset decades of settled law. One year later, 25 million women live in states where ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) released the following statement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade: “One year ago, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to a woman’s fundamental freedom by overturning Roe v. ...
WASHINGTON — Friday, on the 51st anniversary of the Pell Grant, Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Tim Burchett (TN-02) reintroduced the bipartisan Expanding Access to Graduate Education Act to allow Pell Grant recipients to use their remaining Pell eligibility towards their first ...
