Today, Representatives Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Jackie Walorski (R-IN) led a bipartisan group of 25 Members of Congress in calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide an update on their actions to ensure VA clinicians are complying with a law that aims to prevent overprescribing of opioids to veterans. The VA Prescription Data Accountability Act was introduced by Kuster… Read more »

Dear Friend, Protecting Granite Staters with Preexisting Conditions On Wednesday, I joined my Energy and Commerce Committee colleagues to question the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, Seema Verma, about the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act. While Democrats have been working to lower health care costs and… Read more »

Years before he took over the Merrimack County Department of Corrections, Superintendent Ross Cunningham took a chance on another county’s correctional facility. Facing overcrowding, Sullivan County was contemplating building a new jail. Instead, Cunningham advocated for something else: funding for mental health and substance use treatment within the jail. The goal: Treat more… Read more »

Ann McLane Kuster, a Democrat, represents New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District in the House and is co-chair of the House Bipartisan Opioid Task Force. Cory Booker represents New Jersey in the U.S. Senate and is a Democratic candidate for president. As states across the country struggle to cobble together the resources to address the opioid… Read more »

Dear Friend, Combating Youth Substance Use  On Monday, I joined Senator Shaheen, Senator Hassan and Congressman Chris Pappas at the Souhegan Valley Boys and Girls Club in Milford, where we sat down with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) director Jim Carroll and students, school administrators and youth advocates to discuss youth substance use prevention. We… Read more »

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the lead Democrat of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice, announced today with Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01), $664,673 in federal funds for New Hampshire through the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.… Read more »

(Milford, NH) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today joined Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Jim Carroll, as well as local students, school administrators, community leaders and youth advocates in a roundtable discussion at the Boys and Girls Club of Souhegan Valley… Read more »

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today announced the award of $4,718,681 in federal grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the treatment of opioid addiction through its Helping to End Addition Long-term… Read more »

 Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced bipartisan legislation in the House today to ensure that the Drug Enforcement Administration has the authority to carry out needed enforcement actions for drug diversion control investigations. The Restoring Enforcement Standards to Track Opioids Responsively and Effectively (RESTORE) Act of… Read more »

Dear Friend,  After a productive week in Washington I am looking forward to heading back to the Granite State! Take a look at what I have been up to this week. Combating PFAS Contamination I spoke on the House floor this week to urge Congress to address PFAS proliferation in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 (NDAA). On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce… Read more »