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. The letter follows the administration’s announcement of its latest trade mitigation… Read more »

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. "It's a heart-wrenching situation. We have a true humanitarian crisis… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, Jared Golden, D-Maine, Chris Pappas, D-NH, and Annie Kuster, D-NH, have secured language in the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to support Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers who were hired between January 2016 and December 2016, but had been declared ineligible for the Navy’s Accelerated Promotion Program, a federal… Read more »

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. The National Defense Authorization Act would ban the firefighting foam that's been used to smother fuel fires at hundreds of military sites across the US, including the… Read more »

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. President Donald Trump has said the health care law isn't working and believes the lawsuit will be successful in… Read more »

U .S. Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas each went out on a limb on Friday. Actually, they went out on a rope, as they took part in the United Way’s Over the Edge fundraiser at the Brady Sullivan Tower. They had been invited to do so by Michelle Lawrence of Manchester, a clinical care manager at Moore Center. Lawrence raised about $3,000 for invisible diseases and is… Read more »

What more could the federal government do to help Cheshire County fight the opioid epidemic and meet local health care needs? That was the topic Monday, as Congresswoman Ann M. Kuster stopped by the county jail and nursing home to meet with county leaders. As part of the visit, Kuster and county officials discussed the jail’s expanded use of medication to treat inmates… Read more »

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The four members of New Hampshire’s all-Democratic congressional delegation expressed deep concern over President Donald Trump’s comments that he would not rule out accepting damaging information about his 2020 rivals from a foreign government. Trump prompted an avalanche of criticism from Democratic presidential candidates and Democratic members of… Read more »

For Rep. Annie Kuster, traveling to France to attend the 75th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating D-Day hit close to home. Her late father, Malcolm McLane, was on patrol during D-Day and received a Purple Heart for his service in World War II. “It is deeply humbling to be in the spot where, 75 years ago today, hundreds of thousands of brave Allied soldiers risked and gave… Read more »

I will never forget running outside into the cold dark night. I was a freshman college student at a dance with friends. It was a wonderful party until a young man assaulted me in a crude and insulting way. I felt scared and alone. I did not know where to turn, so I kept that pain to myself for many years. Sadly, my experience was hardly unique. Each year thousands of young lives will be… Read more »