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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – President Joe Biden is making quick work already, signing 10 executive orders in the first week as president. Biden’s administration also revealed a COVID-19 response plan that promises to deliver 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days. He is calling on states to speed up their vaccination plans and start vaccinating people 65 and older along with… Read more »

Rep. Richard Neal is on Capitol Hill today to witness the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, which he anticipates will be “a welcome contrast” to the last four years. “I think that one of the things that Joe Biden will always do — given his institutional knowledge and given the fact that he has great regard for our government institutions — it will be a… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- Some local elected officials witnessed history on Wednesday and took part in the presidential inauguration ceremony. Western Mass News spoke with Congressman Richard Neal on how this inauguration was different than ever before. First thing Wednesday morning, Neal tweeted, saying: "A new day is upon us." Neal said he was watching President Joe Biden get… Read more »

President Joe Biden’s inauguration served, for U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, as a reminder of “how durable American institutions are.” Neal, D-Springfield, looked on Wednesday as Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in outside the U.S. Capitol, two weeks after a violent mob invaded that building in an attempt to delay certification of November’s… Read more »

Joe Biden took the oath of office at noon Wednesday to become the 46th president of the United States. He takes charge in a deeply divided nation, inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. WAMC has been speaking with members of Congress from the Northeast who attended the inauguration. Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, a Democrat from… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal said President Joe Biden did a wonderful job Wednesday addressing, as Neal called it, “the American family” and setting a tone for his new administration. As Biden himself pointed out in a Tweet following his inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, now comes a lot of hard work. That includes Biden’s COVID-19 relief legislation, a lot of… Read more »

All eyes will be on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday during the joint session to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Republican allies of President Donald Trump say they will object to some of the results as Trump continues to falsely claim that he won the election. On Twitter today, Trump inaccurately wrote that outgoing Vice President Mike Pence “has the… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- President Donald Trump has reportedly signed the $900-billion stimulus package, government spending bill. By signing the bill, it averted a government shutdown. With the president signing this bill, millions of Americans can keep their federal unemployment benefits. Also, the eviction moratorium extended, and now millions of Americans will be getting a $600… Read more »

Financial assistance for millions of Americans hangs in the balance of the COVID-19 relief measure passed by the House and Senate earlier this week. The bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 stimulus package includes $600 stimulus checks to tens of millions of Americans earning less than $75,000 - as well as $600 for each child dependent - and an extra $300 in weekly unemployment… Read more »

Britain’s departure from the European Union and the legacy of the Trump administration means that the special relationship between the U.S. and U.K. isn’t what it once was. But the agreement struck on Christmas Eve over post-Brexit relations between the U.K. and EU removed a major potential source of friction between Boris Johnson’s government and the… Read more »