Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) announced today with Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH) that the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) is providing over $4.1 million through seven New Hampshire Catalyst Program awards to support economic, educational and community development projects in rural areas… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) applauded the announcement that $2.9 million in federal funding is being awarded to two infrastructure improvement projects in New Hampshire. The City of Claremont will… Read more »
Manchester, N.H. — Yesterday, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) joined New England Council President Jim Brett at St. Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics to discuss her work representing New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District over the last 12 years, priorities she would like to see the next Congress address, and her plans for the future.
“It was wonderful… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today, New Democrat Coalition Chair Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Freshman Leadership Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) issued a statement after the Republican-led House Rules Committee rejected Rep. Budzinski’s bipartisan amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would have funded the Affordable… Read more »
Hanover, N.H. — Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) joined the Uncommon Dialogue on Northeastern Rivers and Dams discussion at Dartmouth College. The dialogue centered around the $2.3 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law awarded to the National Uncommon Dialogue on Hydropower and River Conservation, led by Stanford University, American Rivers, and the National Hydropower… Read more »
The New Republic: Vibe check: The future of the Affordable Connectivity Program
By Grace Segers
I’ve previously written in this newsletter about the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helps connect millions of low-income Americans to the internet—and which will end in May if Congress does not approve additional funding. The program grew from a pandemic-era… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, led U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.); Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and U.S. Representatives Becca Balint (VT-AL), Ann Kuster (D-N.H.), and Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging… Read more »
Concord, N.H. – Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) applauded the expansion of the Northern Border Regional Commission’s (NBRC) J-1 Visa Waiver Program to include physicians practicing specialty medicine. Kuster led a bipartisan letter urging the NBRC to use its authority to begin this program, which the NBRC initially launched in December 2023 as part of a larger effort to address… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), alongside U.S. Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Annie Kuster (NH-02), applauded $499,120 from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development headed to Clean Energy NH and Plymouth Area Energy Initiative to help rural New Hampshire small businesses and agricultural producers apply for… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) alongside U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) applauded $3 million in federal funds recently awarded to support the Northern Border Regional Commission’s (NBRC) efforts to foster economic development across the states of New Hampshire, Maine, New York and Vermont. These funds,… Read more »
