MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, July 23 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) participated in a discussion with New Hampshire drug and alcohol prevention advocates this morning amid a significant increase in overdose deaths across New Hampshire's two largest cities. The roundtable discussion was hosted by Makin' It Happen, a Manchester organization committed to promoting the overall well-being of youth and fami more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation that would codify the fundamental and constitutional right to contraception, urging Senate leadership to follow suit. Shaheen is a cosponsor of companion legislation in the Senate - the Right to Contraception Act - which would achieve the same goal. "As Republicans in Washington and Conco more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 19, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today welcomed $2,084,000 heading to Colebrook Homeowners Cooperative (CHC), a resident-owned manufactured housing community. This grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide key u more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 19, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today welcomed $2,084,000 heading to Colebrook Homeowners Cooperative (CHC), a resident-owned manufactured housing community. This grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide key up more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) helped pass her amendment to eliminate funding for the VA Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission and transfer the $5,000,000 to the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program. Earlier this year, Kuster helped dissolve the AIR Commission after it recommended the closure of the Littleton and Conway Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), which would have left  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) voted to invest in American families and the American economy with a package of government funding legislation for Fiscal Year 2023. This legislation will support Granite State veterans and hardworking families, create good-paying jobs and protect health and well-being. "In addition to critical measures for our veterans, the legislation passed by the House today also m more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) voted in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that would enshrine marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples guaranteed by Obergefell v. Hodges and Loving v. Virginia under federal law, repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and provide additional legal protections for marriage equality. "We cannot leave our most fundamental freedoms up to more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, helped advance her legislative amendment to ensure the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children can continue their critical joint work with law enforcement to recover missing children and combating online child exploitation as part of H.R. 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act. This bill passed  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) voted in favor of H.R. 8373, the Right to Contraception Act, legislation that takes proactive steps to protect access to contraception across the country. This action comes in the wake of the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade and calling into question the constitutional protection of contraception and other rights that stem from the right to privacy guaranteed under  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, questioned reproductive health experts about the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning the near 50-year precedent of Roe v. Wade and new state laws restricting abortion access that punish patients who seek as well as doctors who provide abortion care. During the hearing entitled, "Roe Reversal: The Impacts  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today welcomed $2,084,000 heading to Colebrook Homeowners Cooperative (CHC), a resident-owned manufactured housing community. This grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide key upgrades to water, sew more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped pass H.R. 8294, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, which would fund key components of the government through fiscal year 2023. "It's critical that we fund t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined a bipartisan call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House leadership to bring the bipartisan United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) or CHIPS Plus approach to the House Floor before the end of July. This is vital legislation that will boost domestic manufacturing, accelerate U.S. production of semiconductor chips, reduce our reliance on foreign countries l more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 18, 2022: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus and New Hampshire's first openly gay member of Congress, helped introduce the Respect for Marriage Act in the House of Representatives. "We cannot count on the Supreme Court to defend important precedents and protect our rights, and Congress has an obligation to ensure everyone is treated equally be more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus and New Hampshire's first openly gay member of Congress, helped pass the Respect for Marriage Act in the House of Representatives. "The Dobbs decision was a devastating blow to Americans' health and individual freedom. And Justice Thomas's concurring opinion in Dobbs, cheered by some members of the House, is a chill more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, spoke out in opposition to the Department of Defense's proposal to no longer allow veterans and their families and limit the families of active-duty service members from seeking care at the outpatient clinic at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as early as this October. I more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), helped pass the Right to Contraception Act in the House to codify the right to access contraception. The legislation follows Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion stating that the Court should reconsider Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Court decision that recognized the constitutional right to access contraception. "The Dobbs decision upended 50 more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan amendment that Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped introduce to a major appropriations bill that transfers the $5 million previously appropriated for the Department of Veterans' Affairs Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission to the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program. This effectively eliminates all funding for the AIR Commission, furt more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: During a House Veterans' Affairs Committee markup, three bills led by Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, the Faster Payments to Veterans' Survivors Act, the Preventing Homelessness for Veteran Families Act, and the Removing Extraneous Loopholes Insuring Every Veteran Emergency (RELIEVE) Act advanced out of committee, setting them up to be considere more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 19, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today welcomed $2,084,000 heading to Colebrook Homeowners Cooperative (CHC), a resident-owned manufactured housing community. This grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide key upgrades to water, sewer, storm water and utility infrastruc more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement on July 20, 2022, with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York: * * * Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) released the following bipartisan statement condemning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran and reaffirming their opposition to the United States selling fighter jets and militar more PR

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, July 19 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 18, 2022: Senator Hassan today addressed New England Council members at a breakfast in Manchester, where she spoke about her work to lower costs for Granite Staters and strengthen American innovation. The New England Council is an alliance of regional business organizations, including academic and health institutions, which advocates for federal public policies that will promote  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 20, 2022: U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) today highlighted ways to expand housing access in New Hampshire and across the country, including through building new homes and cutting taxes for new homeowners, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Senator Hassan began by discussing the need for more housing options in the Granite State, sharing that "In New Hampshire, I hear from families a more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shaheen (D-NH) and a bipartisan group of Senators introduced two proposals that include legislation to reform and modernize the outdated Electoral Count Act of 1887 to ensure that the electoral votes tallied by Congress accurately reflect each state's vote for President. Led by U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), other Senators involved in the bipartisan negotiati more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- 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 and Foreign Relations Committees, issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration's announcement of new reforms to the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program to improve the application process and reduce the time that applicants wait for approval. Shaheen has long championed the Afghan SIV pro more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration's announcement of a new Executive Order to expand the tools available to deter and disrupt hostage-taking and wrongful detentions that will enhance efforts to free Americans held abroad and further support the families fighting for them at home. Shaheen has worked on numerous cases of Americans  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), John Cornyn (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution calling on the Russian government to immediately release U.S. citizen Brittney Griner from her wrongful detention, and urging the U.S. government in all its int more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, introduced a bipartisan resolution led by U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) recognizing Russia's actions in Ukraine, which include forced deportations to Russia and the purposeful killing of Ukrainian civilians in mass atrocities, as constituting acts of geno more PR

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: 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, issued the following statement after the Committee approved of accession protocols for Finland and Sweden's accession into NATO. "Today's vote not only reaffirms the overwhelming bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate for  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rand Paul (R-KY) are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase access to naloxone, a life-saving drug that acts as an antidote for opioid overdoses. They are requesting that the FDA clarify regulations to ensure that public health organizations can obtain and distribute naloxone. "As the ongoing opioid epidemic continues to claim more a more PR

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 21, 2022: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) today introduced a bipartisan bill to strengthen national security by preparing the federal government's defenses against quantum-computing-enabled data breaches. As quantum computers, including those being developed by our adversaries, continue to get more powerful and more widely available, federal agencies must proactively w more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan, a member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee (SVAC), and Jeanne Shaheen joined 39 of their colleagues in the Senate in a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough urging answers and speedy action to ensure same-sex veteran couples have access to the full and complete spousal benefits they are owed. "Each of our veterans and t more PR

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and 38 Democratic colleagues in the Senate in a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough urging answers and speedy action to ensure same-sex veteran couples have access to the full and complete spousal benefits they are owed. "Each of our veterans and their s more PR

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- 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 their colleagues in introducing legislation to protect access to critical reproductive health care services--like birth control, cancer screenings and more--by providing a consistent and strong source of funding for the Title X Family Planning Program. In addition, the legislation bars New Hampshire and other states from d more PR