WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following calls from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, the United States Military Academy at West Point announced that its next class of female cadets will have the opportunity to be issued better-fitting Army Combat Uniforms (ACUs) - reversing a policy that provided only unisex uniforms to incoming West Point cadets. The previous policy also resulted in female cadets having to pay for the ACU-Female unifor more PR

NASHUA, New Hampshire, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 28: Today, Representative Annie Kuster (NH-02) donated blood at a Red Cross blood drive at the Church of Latter Day Saints in Nashua. Kuster's donation comes in light of ongoing efforts to prevent another national blood shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Red Cross is encouraging healthy individuals to make appointments to donate blood, platelets, and plasma to maintain  more PR

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Oct. 31 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) is calling for passage of the Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act of 2020, legislation to remove barriers and help ensure benefits for veterans suffering from illnesses associated with exposure to toxic burn pits. The Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act, which Kuster is a more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following calls led by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan and the New Hampshire Congressional Delegation, the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Northern New England District confirmed that New Hampshire ballots that are received locally will now be delivered directly to the local clerk's office in order to ensure the timely delivery of ballots. Prior to this announcement, the Postal Service required that bal more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led the New Hampshire congressional delegation in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing concern about Vincent Farms - a Delaware-based food distributor - that was awarded the most recent contract with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to supply food to the New Hampshire Food Bank through the Farmers Families Food Box Program. The  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 29: Tomorrow the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Co-Chairs, Chris Pappas (NH-01), David Cicilline (RI-01), Angie Craig (MN-02), Sharice L. Davids (KS-03), Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18), Mark Pocan (WI-02), and Mark Takano (CA-41) plan to introduce a resolution along with the support of 96 of their colleagues affirming the Supreme Court's rulings on same-sex marriages, following Supreme Court more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 28: Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01), John Sarbanes (MD-03), and Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Dina Titus (NV-01), and Rob Woodall (GA-07) re-introduced a resolution to designate October 28 as "Oxi Day" to commemorate the Greeks' refusal to surrender to Axis forces in the Second World War, stymieing the march of fascism across Europe. On October 28, 1940, the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, de more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement after voting against confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court: "Over the last month, instead of working across the aisle to pass an urgently needed, comprehensive COVID-19 response package, my Senate Republican colleagues rushed through a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Instead of focusing on the needs of the American people, and rather than follow the rules that they themselves invent more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 27: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Todd Young (R-IN) and Tom Carper (D-DE) today introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at improving health care for expectant mothers. The Connected Maternal Online Monitoring Services (MOM) Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to provide coverage recommendations for remote devices to check blood pressure, bl more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), all members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, calling on the U.S. Department of Education to hold corporate executives and shareholders of for-profit colleges personally and financially responsible for cheating s more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following calls led by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan and the New Hampshire Congressional Delegation, the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Northern New England District confirmed that New Hampshire ballots that are received locally will now be delivered directly to the local clerk's office in order to ensure the timely delivery of ballots. Prior to this announcement, the Postal Service required that  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 28: Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) visited the White Mountains Visitor Center to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the North Country's tourism industry. As the state's second-largest industry, tourism is critical to New Hampshire's economy, supporting tens of thousands of jobs and producing millions of dollars in revenue for local communities and the state. However, the more PR

ROCHESTER, New Hampshire, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 29: Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) visited the Rochester Head Start facility to underscore the continuing need for child care support in COVID-19 relief legislation. Child care is crucial to New Hampshire's economic recovery and to allow working families to fully return to work, but providers in the state have been severely impacted by the fallout of the COVID-19 publi more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following excerpts of an op-ed on Oct. 29, published in the Concord Monitor: * * * Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), authored an op-ed for the Concord Monitor, underscoring the urgent need to deliver federal relief to organizations providing assistance to domestic and se more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) issued the following statement after the Senate held its final vote prior to the November 3rd election: "It's absolutely shameful that Mitch McConnell has sent the Senate home without voting on a bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill," said Shaheen. "Two comprehensive bills passed by the House have been stonewalled by the Republican majority and bipartisan negotiations h more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led the New Hampshire congressional delegation in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing concern about Vincent Farms - a Delaware-based food distributor - that was awarded the most recent contract with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to supply food to the New Hampshire Food Bank through the Farmers Families Food Box Program.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Following calls led by U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01), the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Northern New England District confirmed that New Hampshire ballots that are received locally will now be delivered directly to the local clerk's office in order to ensure the timely delivery of ballots. Prior to this announc more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), along with U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Jody Hice (R-GA), are introducing bipartisan legislation to increase transparency and accountability within the federal government. The Oversight.gov Authorization Act would formally authorize the establishment and maintenance of a website to help the public more easily access reports that more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to help bolster the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) visa security screening process, which helps prevent terrorists and other national security threats from entering the United States. The bipartis more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following joint statement with Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, ahead of Georgia's upcoming parliamentary elections: "Since we traveled together to observe Georgia's 2012 parliamentary elections, we have watched democracy deepen and the economy grow. As Georgians prepare to vote in this weekend's parliamentary elections, it is important that all parties respect and abide by internation more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 30: Ahead of tomorrow's 20th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Security Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) - a senior member and the only woman on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - co-led a letter with U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and a group of Senators to President Donald Trump, underscoring the critical importance of ensuring women's part more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined a group of Senators to call on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie to follow through on authorities under President Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) 13822 to increase veterans' access to mental health care. The Senators' letter, which was led by U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), follows the recent signing of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined a group of Senators to call on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie to follow through on authorities under President Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) 13822 to increase veterans' access to mental health care. The Senators' letter, which was led by U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), follows the recent signing of t more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following joint statement on Oct. 29 with Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho: * * * U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations (SFRC) Committee, and SFRC Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) today released the following statement ahead of Georgia's upcoming parliamentary elections: "Since we traveled together to observe Georgia's 2012 parliamentary elections, we have watched democracy deepen and the eco more PR