FRANCONIA, N.H. —
Cannon Mountain honored service members at their first Military Appreciation Day on Sunday.
Active duty, retired, reserve and veteran military members got free lift tickets as a thank you for their service.
The event was held in conjunction with the Azimuth Check Foundation, which offers injured military members year-round athletic events.
The event included a… Read more »
NASHUA -Water in the Nashua River often ran a rusty red in the 1960s because of intense pollution, as it was one of the nation’s most contaminated waterways.
Those who were around to witness the water conditions may remember seeing a different color flowing down the river each day, depending on what sort of pollution was most recently discharged.
The river winds through… Read more »
At Tuesday night’s State of the Union, Donald Trump inadvertently triggered a celebration by female Democratic lawmakers, who were dressed in white as a tribute to the suffrage movement, when he touted statistics about women’s employment. One congresswoman in particular stood out: fourth-term New Hampshire Rep. Ann Kuster, who earned the admiration of many… Read more »
(CN) – Had they known that the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy would involve separating families, a high-ranking government official told lawmakers Thursday that neither he, nor anyone he knew at other federal agencies, would have endorsed it.
U.S. Public Health Service Commander Jonathan White made the admission this morning during a House oversight… Read more »
President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday night.
There was plenty of applause throughout his speech, but one moment in particular drew a bipartisan standing ovation.
"We also have more women serving in Congress than at any time before," Trump said.
As applause broke out across the House Chamber, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., did a "raise the roof"… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) on Jan. 23 sponsored a bipartisan bill to aid United States military members in seeking treatment for sexual trauma.
“This bipartisan bill will help survivors of military sexual trauma by expanding eligibility for travel benefits when they need to travel long distances to receive care,” said Rep. Walorski.
Specifically, H.R. 713 would make… Read more »
Listen. Hear it?
That’s not the sound of President Trump’s wall being built, nor is it cheers from Democrats celebrating the end of that idea and the beginning of their vision, of new technology, drones, more personnel and heightened security at points of entry.
That’s the sound of federal workers – 800,000 nationwide – exhaling over the news that the… Read more »
— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, applauded the Northern Border Regional Commission’s (NBRC) announcement that grant applications for communities impacted by forest product plant closures are now being accepted for fiscal year (FY) 2019. In addition to securing $20 million in NBRC funding in the FY 2019 spending bill… Read more »
CLAREMONT, N.H. —
New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster met with survivors of sexual assault Friday, to discuss the impact the partial government shutdown is having on federal funding.
"Everybody's lives are in jeopardy. It's scary," said one survivor who did not want to be identified.
Kuster met with those survivors at Turning Points Network in Claremont, a crisis center that gets… Read more »
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
New Hampshire’s two members of the U.S. House have been assigned to committees with oversight roles addressing transportation, veterans affairs, energy and health care in the 116th Congress.
Freshman U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas said Thursday he has been assigned to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. He… Read more »
