MSNBC: NH Rep. Annie Kuster: “There are Republicans that will that will be shocked”   New Hampshire Congresswoman Annie Kuster was one of the lawmakers “pinned down in the gallery” on January 6th. “It was moments, not minutes, between when we evacuated and when the insurrectionists came into the hallway we just crossed.” After attending the House Select Committee’s first… Read more »

The Berlin Sun: Plan dropped to close Littleton, Conway VA clinics   WASHINGTON —Members of New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation lauded the end of a Veterans Affairs plan that called for closing its community-based outpatient clinics in Littleton and Conway, leaving no clinic in northern New Hampshire.  Many veterans in Coos County get medical services at the… Read more »

The Nashua Telegraph: Kuster presses Biden officials and infant formula producers about nationwide shortages, calls for immediate action to address shortfalls   CONCORD – During an Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) questioned officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and major infant formula… Read more »

Bloomberg Government: HEALTH CARE BRIEFING: Covid Aid Spat Risks Future Pandemic Drugs The protracted fight over approving $10 billion to combat Covid-19 has shaken the pharmaceutical industry’s confidence that Congress will keep buying new pandemic-fighting drugs and funding research. It’s crucial the government buy existing countermeasures while developing better treatments… Read more »

The Union Leader: Kuster leads push to for military health insurance to cover COVID tests In a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Rep. Annie Kuster and 14 members of Congress asked that COVID-19 tests be automatically covered under the military’s health insurance program. Private health insurance companies have been required to cover at-home COVID-19 tests since… Read more »

WMUR: Reps. Kuster, Pappas support banning members of Congress from trading stocks MANCHESTER, N.H. — An effort to ban stock trading by members of Congress is picking up support from New Hampshire’s two House representatives. The Trust in Congress Act represents the nuclear option when it comes to stopping members of Congress from making money off the inside information they… Read more »

AP News: New Hampshire delegation praises Planned Parenthood grant CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The federal government is sending $500,000 to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, which has struggled with the loss of state funding in New Hampshire. The state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation said Friday the Title X Dire Need Grant will help offset funding losses over the… Read more »

New Hampshire Center Square: New Hampshire congressional delegation urges Biden to rescind Title X 'gag' rule   (The Center Square) – New Hampshire's congressional delegation is urging president Joe Biden to swiftly finalize a repeal of Trump era policy that blocks funding for abortion providers to offset a loss of state funding for reproductive services. Rules put in… Read more »

Berlin Sun: Kuster visits Kel-Log timber harvest ERROL — Mike Kelley of Milan, who owns both Gorham-based Kel-Log, Inc. and Milan-based Kelley Trucking, last Friday morning welcomed U.S. Rep Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) to his company’s timber-harvesting operations 10 miles east of the Seven Islands Bridge, off Route 16 in Thirteen Mile Woods.   Kelley, who described himself as… Read more »

By Steve Gilbert on Jun 19, 2021 You can’t miss it. Walk into the exhibit room at the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene and it commands its environs, floor to ceiling — a Sherman tank — complete with turret, cannon and camouflage netting on top. But looks are deceptive, and deception is the theme in this fascinating summer-long exhibit about a classified Army unit… Read more »