CONCORD – New Hampshire House leaders released the following statement in response to the Fiscal Committee voting 7-3 to accept more than $10 million in federal funding for the purpose of expanding charter school opportunities for New Hampshire students. Acting Speaker Sherman Packard ...
CONCORD (AP) – New Hampshire is expecting 12,000 doses in its first shipment of a coronavirus vaccine as early as next week, state officials said Thursday. Gov. Chris Sununu said Perry Plummer, the former Department of Safety assistant commissioner, is helping to oversee the distribution. ...
CONCORD – COVID-19 may be surging in New Hampshire, but it is having a marginal effect on state revenues which continue to perform better than budget writers anticipated. Although November is not a large month for state revenue collections, state levies produced $141.3 million, or $27.8 ...
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) hosted a virtual roundtable with New Hampshire child care providers and advocates on the ongoing need to provide assistance for child care centers in COVID-19 relief legislation. Child care is crucial to New Hampshire's economic recovery and to allow working ...
U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that Jamie O'Keefe, a junior at Exeter High School, won the district's 2020 Congressional App Challenge. Hosted by the U.S. House of Representatives, this competition highlights the importance of STEM education and encourages middle and high school ...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A former Fortune 500 executive from New Hampshire who pleaded guilty to causing a crash in 2013 that killed a couple and their unborn baby has been granted parole. Robert Dellinger apologized during a parole board meeting Thursday for the emotional damage he caused ...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included 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), to combat ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) released the following statement on the bipartisan House and Senate agreement on a measure to end the practice of surprise medical bills: “We have heard from constituents time and time again ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is expecting 12,000 doses in its first shipment of a coronavirus vaccine as early as next week, state officials said Thursday. Gov. Chris Sununu said Perry Plummer, the former Department of Safety assistant commissioner, is helping to oversee the ...
House and Senate Democratic leadership requests testing for legislators and staff potentially exposed to COVID-19. Officials sent Gov. Chris Sununu the following letter: His Excellency Christopher T. Sununu Governor of New Hampshire 107 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301 December ...
MERRIMACK – State Rep. Richard "Dick" Hinch, a Merrimack resident who a week ago was elected House Republican Leader, died Wednesday afternoon, according to sources. Hinch, 71, an insurance broker, was in his sixth term as a state representative from Merrimack. He was also a member of the ...
U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) issued the following statements after the House of Representatives passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020, biennial legislation that authorizes water infrastructure projects around the country. WRDA contains several ...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (NH-01) supported the final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2020. This year’s NDAA includes several provisions Pappas fought for including help for military installations to clean up PFAS contamination and expand federal ...
WASHINGTON – In a bipartisan effort to support American public servants who have incurred brain injuries from probable microwave attacks, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) - a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees - and U.S. Senators Susan Collins ...
WASHINGTON – Reps. Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Gwen Moore (WI-04) led 15 colleagues in sending a letter to the Office of the President-Elect urging the incoming administration to give consideration to the Clery Act as they plan to repair the damage done to Title IX by the Trump Administration's ...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan measure cosponsored by Senators Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen that authorizes the development and construction of a national monument to fallen journalists. The measure now moves to the President’s desk for a signature. “A free press ...
CONCORD – Allegations of wrongdoing by Judge Julie A. Introcaso, stemming from her handling of a parenting case filed more than two years ago in Nashua family court, has prompted the state Judicial Conduct Committee to place her on paid administrative leave as the case heads toward a ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan joined her colleagues in calling on Congress to invest $6 billion in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in next year’s spending bill. The number of people in New Hampshire struggling with food insecurity has ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden announced today that he will nominate Xavier Becerra to be the next Secretary for the ...
WASHINGTON – the Senate unanimously passed the Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Deb Fischer (R-RE) that will enhance efforts to identify and shut down student debt relief ...
