U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, wants the expansion of two tax credit programs to be included in the next coronavirus relief package.
Neal, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, has asked that the expansion of the earned income tax credit and child tax credit be part of the next stimulus bill, The Hill reported Friday. Both tax credit programs are geared toward… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- There's been a back-and-forth on the next round of stimulus checks for the American people coming from the White House.
Negotiations hit a stand still Tuesday on the economic relief bill and then, late last night, the president said he is once again willing to go to the negotiating table.
It's been six months since a stimulus bill was signed into law,… Read more »
A long-running lawsuit by the House Ways and Means Committee to access President Donald Trump’s tax returns will continue after the New York Times published a lengthy report about the returns on Sunday.
The newspaper obtained years of the president’s tax documents from an unnamed source. It reports Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — The New York Times' exhaustive report into President Donald J. Trump’s troubled finances and a looming tax audit that could cost him more than $100 million asks the same question U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal wants to see answered.
“We want the IRS to tell us how they audit a presidential tax form,” Neal, D-Springfield, said Monday in… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, said it is imperative that another relief package be approved in order to keep the economy moving forward as the nation continues to address the coronavirus pandemic.
“Much of this is based upon the urgency of the moment for sure, but the understanding that the resurgence of the virus as we head into fall and winter would… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – House Democrats are once again bringing up negotiations to push through another COVID-19 relief stimulus aid package.
The legislation in the works would be a proposed $2.4 trillion aid package as opposed to the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act that stalled in the Senate.
In a news briefing in Springfield Friday, Congressman Richard Neal said this aid is crucial… Read more »
Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced an expansive reform package to curb presidential abuses and enhance Congress’s ability to provide oversight and maintain the rule of law, which they argue President Donald Trump has repeatedly ignored while in office.
In a news conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairs of… Read more »
CHICOPEE — Early indications from the 2020 Census show Massachusetts' population is growing fast enough to retain all nine of its Congressional districts, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal said Friday.
Neal spoke at a Chicopee event urging people across the region to respond during what officials fear will be the last 12 days of the 2020 count.
Neal said he’s basing his… Read more »
Nineteen years ago, three Westfield natives were among those killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and their hometown remembered them Friday in an annual ceremony at the memorial erected in their honor.
The 9/11 Memorial Park is dedicated to Westfield natives Tara Shea-Creamer, Brian Murphy, and Daniel Trant, who died in the attacks launched on Sept. 11,… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- Governor Charlie Baker made a stop in Springfield on Thursday to be part of a big announcement about a downtown housing project, decades in the works, now coming to fruition.
The Elm Street project, which includes 3-7 and 13-31 Elm Street, will be transferred to private developers in November.
The result will be market rate housing and retail space.
There… Read more »
