WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02) was joined by Rep. Chris Pappas (NH-01) in sending a letter to President Joe Biden urging the safe and responsible reopening of the land border between the United States and Canada to vaccinated, non-essential Canadian travelers. Reps. Kuster and Pappas have been leading national calls to safely reopen the U.S.-Canada border since June. The border is scheduled more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the only woman and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today questioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken on several policy priorities following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, most notably, the plight of Afghan women and girls and Afghan allies, and continued efforts to evacuate Americans and vulnerable Afghan communities. Sha more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire will receive $3,225,084 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to strengthen home visiting services for families in underserved communities and expand access to essential health care services at Granite Sta more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced that she and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), along with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), will reintroduce the Democracy for All Amendment next week. This constitutional amendment would overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision, as well as other alarming decisions around campaign finance that led to floods of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, participated in a three-day full committee markup of the Build Back Better Act, legislation that makes historic investments in families, workers, and the middle class. During the markup, Kuster advanced policies that would broaden access to affordable health care coverage, expand Medicare benefits for senio more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Hello Friends, In August, I was in the North Country on my 'Build Back Better' tour, meeting with business and community leaders to discuss their COVID-19 operations and future needs. Our Granite State businesses have done an incredible job adapting during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was wonderful to see their innovation at work! The first stop of my 'Build Back Better' tour was a meeting with local more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2021: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire will receive $3,225,084 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to strengthen home visiting services for families in underserved communities and expand access to essential health care services  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) issued the following statements after the New Hampshire Executive Council voted to terminate multiple contracts for family planning services, which effectively defunds critical services for women's health providers across New Hampshire, like Planned Parenthood: more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 10 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement ahead of the 20th anniversary of September 11th. "This year marks the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11 - when the blue skies of a September morning in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania were marred with smoke and fire, and our nation and world were changed forever. Each year on this day, we  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2021: Congresswomen Annie Kuster (NH-02), Jackie Speier (CA-14), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Gwen Moore (WI-04) along with 55 of their colleagues sent a letter today to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Acting Assistant Secretary Suzanne Goldberg urging the Department of Education to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Title IX in October. In the letter, the Members lauded the ste more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan cosponsored the bipartisan Secure Equipment Act of 2021 that would direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to close a loophole and help prevent telecommunications equipment sold by companies that pose a national security threat from being deployed in the United States. These companies include Chinese state-backed or directed firms such as Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hik more PR

ALLENSTOWN, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan today recognized Captain Doug Miner of the New Hampshire Forest Protection Bureau, who was awarded the Smokey Bear Award for his tireless efforts in wildfire prevention, at a ceremony at the NH Fire Protection Bureau Regional Office in Bear Brook State Park. The Smokey Bear Award is the highest honor that one can receive for wildland fire pr more PR

NEWINGTON, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, paid tribute to prisoners of war and those still missing in action at the annual POW/MIA Recognition Day event at Pease Air National Guard Base. The ceremony comes one day before National POW/MIA Recognition Day, which is on Friday, September 17. "From World War II through today, more than 81,000 service memb more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2021: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that New Hampshire will receive $3,225,084 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to strengthen home visiting services for families in underserved communities and expand access to essential health care servic more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) issued the following statements after the New Hampshire Executive Council voted to terminate multiple contracts for family planning services, which effectively defunds critical services for women's health providers across New Hampshire, like Planned Parentho more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and Chair of the SFRC Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, hosted a fireside chat at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) with the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, Stavros Lambrinidis, on transatlantic relations. One of t more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- 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, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard's Economic Impact Report for 2020. "This report reaffirms what we already know in New Hampshire: the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plays a vital role in our state, not only to bolster our nation's military readiness, but i more PR

HAMPTON, New Hampshire, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) visited the Neil R. Underwood Bridge that crosses the Hampton River - the number one red-listed bridge in New Hampshire - to discuss how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the historic bipartisan infrastructure bill Shaheen helped negotiate, will invest in repairing and replacing crumbling infrastructure across the state. Cons more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) led a letter with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra calling on HHS to award supplemental grants directly to the New Hampshire family planning providers that were recently defunded by the New Hampshire Execu more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced a bipartisan bill to address ridiculous waste in the federal government by transferring taxpayer dollars sitting unused in a federal account to the Treasury Department's general fund. Currently, $1.5 billion in federal funds still sit in the U.S. Enrichment Corporation Fund despite the U.S. Enrichment Corporation being disbanded and  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan, a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined in introducing bipartisan legislation to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 American service members who terrorists killed in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021 while the service members were bravely working to evacuate Am more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, joined in introducing bipartisan legislation to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 American service members who terrorists killed in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021 while the service members were bravely working to evacuate A more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today sent a letter to President Biden with Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Jon Tester (D-MT), Angus King (I-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) urging his administration to allow vaccinated Canadians to travel to the U.S. through land ports of entry. Noting the economic more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2021: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today sent a letter to President Biden with Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Jon Tester (D-MT) Angus King (I-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) urging his administration to allow vaccinated Canadians to travel to the U.S. through land ports of entry. Noting the economic a more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- 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, called on multiple federal agencies to address current aspects of the cryptocurrency market that allow for criminal usage. Senator Hassan's call follows last month's cyberattack on the Town of Peterborough, which resulted in the theft of $2.3 million in taxpayer dollars, almost all of which was co more PR