Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) sent a letter to U.S. Social...
Neal Continues to Highlight Impact of Proposed Medicaid Cuts on First Congressional District during Visit to Life Care of Wilbraham
Apr 14, 2025
Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal joined Dennis Lopata, Executive Director of Life Care of Wilbraham, to highlight the impact of proposed Medicaid cuts on the First Congressional District. Last...
Ways and Means Democrats Expand Oversight of the Trump Administration and Demand Answers on DOGE’s Meddling in the National Database for New Hires and the Social Security Administration
Apr 11, 2025
Ways and Means Democrats have filed two more Resolutions of Inquiry, demanding all information on DOGE’s unauthorized probes into the National Directory for New Hires and cuts at the Social Security...
Ways and Means Democrats introduce bill to end tariff chaos, reclaim Congress’ trade authority
Apr 10, 2025
Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), along with all Ways and Means Committee Democrats, today introduced the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act, a...
Neal, Ways and Means Democrats Demand Answers on HHS Regional Office Closures
Apr 10, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), along with every other Ways and Means Democrat, wrote to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy...
Neal, Larson Statement on Latest Trump Weaponization of Social Security
Apr 10, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (D-CT) released the following statement lambasting the Trump...
Neal Leads Massachusetts Delegation in Demanding Answers on the Sudden Closure of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office in Boston
Apr 9, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation - Senator Elizabeth Warren...
Neal Leads Massachusetts Delegation in Demanding Answers on the Sudden Closure of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Office in Boston
Apr 9, 2025
Letter Text PDF Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation - Senator...
Neal Opening Statement at Hearing on the Trump Administration’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda
Apr 9, 2025
(As prepared for delivery) Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to Ambassador Greer for being here today. From the economic soft-landing President Trump was handed, it’s only taken him 79 days to...
Neal Blasts Republicans’ Phony Arithmetic on the House Floor
Apr 9, 2025
WATCH HERE"Mr. Speaker, the proposal that we're hearing from the other side is reckless and irresponsible. What they're saying is what they usually say. Let's complain about the size of the national...
Neal Statement on March 2025 Jobs Report
Apr 4, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) March 2025 jobs report: “Unemployment is rising, and...
Neal, Boyle, Wyden, Merkley Release Staggering New Cost Estimate of Republican Tax Plan, Blast Giveaways to Corporations and the Wealthy
Apr 3, 2025
New JCT Estimate Pegs Cost of Extending 2017 Trump Tax Law at $5.5 Trillion, Up from Previous Estimate of $4.6 Trillion; Republican Plan for Additional Tax Breaks Could Increase Overall Cost of...
Neal Statement on Senate GOP Budget Resolution
Apr 2, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after Senate Republicans released their budget blueprint and attempted to disguise over $5 trillion in...
Neal Statement on Trump’s Trade War Escalation
Apr 2, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President Donald Trump escalated his reckless trade war: “The President just marked for history...
Neal Statement on Latest Trump Attack on the Health of the American People
Apr 1, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted the Trump Administration for its latest attack on the health of the American people with illegal mass firings at the Department...
Neal Opening Statement at Democratic Leadership, Steering and Policy Committee for Hearing on Republican Scheme to Destroy Social Security
Apr 1, 2025
(As prepared for delivery) “Today, we are here fighting back for the people. Trump and Musk’s crusade against Social Security is a five-alarm fire, and in the nearly 90 years of Social...
Neal Statement on the 15th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
Mar 21, 2025
Springfield, MAAhead of the 15th anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA)...
USPS workers want to stamp out Trump, DOGE talk of privatization
Mar 20, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Namu Sampath | nsampath@repub.comAmber James has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for over two decades. When she learned last week that Louis DeJoy, postmaster general,...
Despite funding uncertainty under President Trump, Gov. Healey says ‘full steam’ for west-east rail
Mar 20, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.comDesign work for track and station projects needed to make Pittsfield-to-Springfield-to-Boston passenger rail work proceeds despite worries that the...
Neal on the Five-Alarm Fire at the Social Security Administration
Mar 19, 2025
Springfield, MAWays and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted Republicans’ systematic attack on the people’s earned benefits and the Social Security Administration: “The...