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**Agenda includes bills that have been introduced in Congress to address sexual violence**
**Kuster-backed legislation provides $50 billion investment to protect affordable
child care**
(Washington, DC) – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $885,995.67 in federal funding to support Granite State firefighters around the state.
Washington, DC - Today, the Bipartisan Task Force to End Sexual Violence, led by Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Dave Joyce (R-OH) and John Katko (R-NY), held a virtual roundtable conversation to discuss how state and local organizations that combat sexual violence are navigating the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, Representative Annie Kuster (NH-02) held a virtual roundtable discussion with Hubbard Brook climate change scientists to discuss the latest research and findings on climate change. The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is situated in the White Mountains and administered by the USDA Forest Service.
**Kuster joins hearing after GAO report requested by Kuster finds alarming rates of sexual harassment at the Department of Veterans Affairs**
Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) voted in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act, which includes full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) for the first time in the program’s 56 year history.
Today, the House of Representatives passed the William (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contains multiple provisions that Rep.
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CLAREMONT — Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D- District 2) held a federal funding workshop at the Makerspace Wednesday morning to introduce Claremont area organizations, communities and businesses to federal, state and local grant and loan opportunities to support economic development throughout the region.
LEBANON, N.H. —
Representative Annie Kuster (D-NH-2) visited visited Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center on Monday as part of her district-wide health care listening tour.
One major part of providing rural health care is Dartmouth Hitchcock's Advanced Response Team (DHART), which is celebrating its 25th year serving Vermont and New Hampshire.
Ninety percent of women serving time at New Hampshire State Prison are dealing with addiction, officials say.
While incarcerated, they have access to medication, peer support and other recovery programs.
Nature has always thwarted farmers’ plans. But the changing climate makes things even less predictable.
That was one of the messages of a forum featuring U.S. Rep. Ann M. Kuster in Keene Tuesday, which focused on small farmers’ responses to climate change.
Nursing infants taken from their mothers. Toddlers left unattended, being cared for by ten-year-old children. Hundreds of individuals crammed into cells with no room to sit or lay down. Florescent lights on 24 hours a day. Families shivering on concrete floors. A father and daughter laying face down in the Rio Grande.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas, both D-N.H., on Wednesday led a letter, signed by a bipartisan group of 38 members of Congress, to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue calling on the Trump administration to include the hardwood industry in any future trade mitigation assistance packages.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Congresswoman Annie Kuster has returned from a weekendlong visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Democrat joined other members of Congress for a briefing on conditions at border facilities.
Kuster said conditions at some locations were horrendous and she was disturbed by what she saw.
President Trump is threatening to veto the defense budget, in part because that bill would also ban the military from using firefighting foam containing chemicals that have contaminated water in parts of New Hampshire.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
On the eve of arguments in front of a federal appeals court, New Hampshire's Democratic congressional delegation warned that a lawsuit aimed at overturning the Affordable Care Act could have devastating effects for thousands of Granite Staters.