WASHINGTON – Following reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is stopping the sending of defective gowns to New Hampshire nursing homes and instead sending a different type of gown, Senator Hassan issued the following statement: “After hearing concerns from New ...
WASHINGTON – As states face an economic downturn and Americans lose health care coverage due to job loss during the public health pandemic, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Bob Casey (D-PA) and their colleagues introduced the Coronavirus Medicaid Response Act. This legislation would ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calling on the agency to expedite the release of $4 billion of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding for emergency housing. HUD has yet to ...
U.S. Sen Maggie Hassan issued the following statement in observance of the July 4 holiday. "This Independence Day will certainly look and feel different than in years past. However, even as we all continue to socially distance and follow public health guidelines, I encourage everyone to take ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Thursday added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a bipartisan amendment from Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI). The amendment helps ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), the vice chair and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, sent a letter today to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after the Department of Commerce (DOC) ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) cosponsored legislation introduced by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) caregiver program. According to reports, caregivers and veterans have been arbitrarily discharged or ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen joined colleagues in introducing a resolution about the importance of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and urging increased funding in the next COVID-19 relief package to help it offset losses incurred due to the pandemic. The ...
The House passed H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, to improve America’s infrastructure. The final legislation included critical provisions from Rep. Annie Kuster’s (NH-02) bipartisan Invest in American Railroads Act, which will make it easier for New Hampshire to fund the Capitol Corridor ...
WASHINGTON – Following reports that the Internal Revenue Service paid $1.4 billion in COVID-19 stimulus payments to deceased individuals, the Senate last night passed bipartisan legislation to curb erroneous payments to deceased individuals and save federal dollars. The bill is a version of ...
CONCORD - House Republican Leader Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) and Rep. Terry Roy (R- Deerfield) released the following statement in response to concurrence on HB1582, relative to waived tuition at state colleges and universities for children of veterans who are totally and permanently disabled. ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan urged the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help assist renters following the lifting of New Hampshire’s eviction moratorium today. The Senator’s outreach follows conversations with affordable housing leaders in New Hampshire ...
WASHINGTON – Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) led 11 of her colleagues in calling on the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to act in response to nursing homes evicting residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter cites New York ...
CONCORD – Andru Volinsky received the endorsement of retired New Hampshire Superior Court Judge Arthur Brennan. Brennan, who resides in Weare, NH, served on the New Hampshire Superior Court from 1992 to 2007. "I've known Andru Volinsky for over 25 years, during which I've been privileged to ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan joined her colleagues on the Senate floor this evening to deliver two speeches calling for immediate action to protect nursing home residents and staff who have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and calling for additional support for schools. ...
CONCORD – New national data shows that New Hampshire ranks second in the United States for overall child well-being. The number two ranking, released as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2020 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, is a welcomed recognition, but it reveals a drop from first in 2019, ...
CONCORD – U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02) unveiled her “Opportunity and Justice for All” Agenda, which highlights legislation that she is supporting to address institutional racism and help create a more just society for all Americans. The agenda was drafted following the Congresswoman’s ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced legislation today with U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representatives Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mike Turner (R-OH) to reduce exposure of service members and their families to harmful PFAS chemicals. The bicameral, ...
CONCORD - Today, the New Hampshire Senate concurred with a House of Representatives amendment on SB 311, Senator Martha Hennessey’s (D-Hanover) bill to provide for an annulment of a criminal record without payment of a fee in certain cases and specifies a waiting period for the annulment of ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling to strike down a law in Louisiana that would have drastically limited access to abortion services. "Women have a constitutional right to make their own health care decisions ...
