At 11 a.m. tomorrow, Congresswoman Annie Kuster, D-NH-02, will host a telephone town hall focused on issues and programs that are important to Granite State seniors. Kuster will hear stories from New Hampshire seniors who rely on Medicare and Social Security, answer questions about these programs, and encourage constituents to contact her office for help resolving problems with benefits, enrollment, or other issues. The town hall comes during the week of Medicare’s 48th anniversary. Kuster will be joined on the call by policy experts from AARP. Read more »
The New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont agriculture departments are hosting listening sessions next month to offer farmers a chance to learn about proposed federal safety rules. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Rep. Annie Kuster had led the group of senators and representatives to call on the FDA to come to New England. Read more »
A $4.1 million federal grant to improve the state's airports will pay for a new fuel farm at Berlin Regional Airport. U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster and Carol Shea-Potter last week announced the state Department of Transportation will receive the grant to help maintain public airports across the state. Read more »
Rockingham County's Meals on Wheels program is grappling with federal budget cuts of $81,000. Rockingham County Nutrition Executive Director said she and her staff provide hot meals to a dozen different communities in the county most days...Congresswoman Annie Kuster toured the center Tuesday morning, chatting with Windham Meals on Wheels program coordinator Barbara Coish and the dozen or so seniors gathered inside for a friendly game of cards or a hot, midday meal. Read more »
Congressman Annie McLane Kuster, D-N.H., stopped at the Windham Senior Center yesterday. She interrupted a game of Scat, but held all the cards. The Democrat from the 2nd District came calling to let the seniors know she disapproves of Washington’s politics that produced across-the-board budget cuts through the sequester. Read more »
Most of the photographs used by politicians to promote themselves are tiresome in the extreme: the dark suit, the carefully coiffed hair, the frozen smile. In that context, the picture used these days by 2nd District Rep. Annie Kuster on her official Facebook page is all the more startling, refreshing and cool...The picture was part of a recent congressional photo shoot conducted by the NOH8 (No Hate) Campaign. Read more »
U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster of New Hampshire is highlighting her support for making a federal research and development tax credit permanent with a stop at Airmar Technology Corp. in Milford. Read more »
A Keene-based nonprofit organization has received a federal grant to help keep veterans in their homes. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and U.S. Rep. Ann M. Kuster, D-N.H., announced Thursday that Southwestern Community Services will be awarded a $263,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Supportive Services for Veteran Families program. Read more »
An organization that helps homeless veterans in New Hampshire is getting a $1 million grant to help them. The funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is going to Harbor Homes in Nashua. It will allow the organization to provide financial assistance to more than 300 veterans and their families. It will help them cover rent, utilities and other living costs. Read more »
The proposed federal fiscal year 2014 budget calls for cutting Medicare reimbursement levels to Critical Access Hospitals by $1.43 billion over the next 10 years. In addition, the budget would eliminate the use of the critical access designation for any facility that’s within 10 miles of another hospital, which would save $690 million in Medicare funding. In a letter sent last month to high-level members of the House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, the Democrat who represents the Monadnock region in Congress, joined 24 other representatives in urging the committee to reexamine the proposal. Read more »
