WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued the following testimony by Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, at an April 18, 2023, member day hearing on transportation and infrastructure priorities: * * * Chairman Graves and Ranking Member Larsen, I want to begin by thanking you for holding today's Member Day. I appreciate this opportunity to present the priorities of New Hampshire's 2nd District. My statement today focuses on priorities for the upcoming Fe  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, added three key amendments yesterday to a new bipartisan bill led by Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who are Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Western Hemisphere Security Strategy Act would establish a partnership with nation  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: In case you missed it, last week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), visited HAVEN, one of the NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence's (NHCADSV) 12 domestic and sexual violence crisis centers, during Sexual Assault Awarene  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, May 3 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) hosted a roundtable with local leaders and advocates on the state of rural broadband in New Hampshire and what comes next for development. During the event, the group discussed how funds from the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package have improved access in New Hampshire and how to best continue that progress. "From sma  more

LEBANON, New Hampshire, May 4 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) met with leadership at Dartmouth Health to tour the newly constructed Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's Patient Pavilion. During the visit, Kuster spoke with Dr. Joanne Conroy, President and CEO of Dartmouth Health, about the expansion and how the new facility will support patients and expand the services available in the region. "Dartmouth Health is a nat  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, May 3 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) visited Rosemary's Way Apartments, a CATCH Neighborhood Housing affordable development. While touring the site, Kuster emphasized the contributions of Rosemary Heard, the former President and CEO of the organization, who sadly passed away in December 2020 and whose dedicated leadership and crucial contributions to housing across the state helped  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 2 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) toured Summer Park Residences I, a 24-unit housing project which provides a safe and affordable place for people 62 and older and those with disabilities to live, and met with Twin Pines Housing staff and leadership to discuss the need for more affordable housing options in New Hampshire. During the visit, Kuster highlighted federal funding she   more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: on International Firefighters' Day, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH-02) announced bipartisan legislation to support volunteer firefighters and first responders, while addressing the local volunteer shortage. The bill, the Helping Our Heroes Act, will allow volunteer emergency responders, including firefighters, ambulance services, civil air patrol, and search and rescue services, to treat each hour of ser  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: During a House Veterans' Affairs Committee markup, two bipartisan bills led by Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, advanced out of the Committee with unanimous, bipartisan support. The two bills were the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act and the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act. "Our veterans swore an   more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of the Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA) Subcommittee of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee (HVAC), and Congressman Russ Fulcher (ID-01) re-introduced the Bring Our Heroes Home Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would expedite and coordinate the process of collecting, declassifying, and making public records of Prisoners of War   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.); Senator Bill Hagerty (R- Tenn.); and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) today introduced the Solidify Iran Sanctions Act (SISA) to make permanent the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. Cementing these sanctions will advance national security by restraining Ira  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and James Lankford (R-OK) are sounding the alarm on the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, to generate persuasive, tailored scams that are intended to rob Americans by getting access to their personal financial information. Last month, Senator Hassan pressed Internal Revenue Service (IRS)  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan joined Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and colleagues in calling on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to take further action to remove barriers to buprenorphine, a lifesaving drug used to treat opioid use disorder. Specifically, the Senators are urging the DEA to initiate a multi-agency evaluation of buprenorphine with the Food and D  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), joined a group of their fellow lawmakers to reintroduce the Child Care for Working Families Act, which addresses challenges that many families face in finding affordable child care. The legislation would cap child care costs at 7 percent of a family's income, expand access to preschool programs and increase wages for early chi  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter on May 5, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter with a group of Senators to the Biden administration formally requesting that they offer all available support for humanitarian efforts in Sudan, as violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues for a third week. The worse  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lauded the nomination of Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta to lead the Office of Global Women's Issues at the Department of State, which cleared a key procedural hurdle this afternoon and sets up the Senate to vote on Gupta's confirmation next week. Shaheen has championed the advancement of her nomination ,   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reintroduced the PFAS Exposure Assessment and Documentation Act, which would provide blood testing for service members as part of their annual periodic health assessment (PHA), as well as for family members and veterans who were stationed at one of the more than 700 military installations with known contaminatio  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees, issued the following statement on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) newly released report on the comprehensive study of personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by firefighters to determine the identity and concentration of per- and poly- fluoroalkyl s  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), issued the following statement on Mental Health Awareness Month, which is recognized throughout the month of May: "Mental Health Awareness Month is an important opportunity for all of us to recommit ourselves to raising awareness, eliminating the stigma and working to expand access to lifesaving resources. As we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we   more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME), co-chairs of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, led a bipartisan letter to Senate leadership emphasizing the importance of the Special Diabetes Program (SDP) that was signed by a group of 60 Senators. Without action in Congress this year, funding for the SDP is set to expire on September 30th. "Approximately one in four health care doll  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, joined Democratic leadership and other Appropriations and committee chairs to preview their priorities in upcoming legislation that builds off the historic CHIPS and Scienc  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: Yesterday, the United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) to commemorate and support the goals of World Quantum Day. This resolution highlights the importance of the quantum mechanics that are part of the technologies used in everyday life, such as semiconductors in computers, atomic clocks that power GPS syst  more