Today, key House and Senate Committee leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills and establish a fair framework to resolve payment disputes between health care providers and health insurance companies. The deal was agreed to by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Ene... Read more »
The chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee urged the incoming administration to renew trade negotiations with the European Union, countering a pledge by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to postpone any new trade talks until after the United States has made significant domestic investments. The statement on Friday, from Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, ... Read more »
HOLYOKE, MASS. (WHDH) - Congressmen Joe Kennedy III and Richard Neal are introducing a bill in response to the deadly COVID-19 outbreak that occurred at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in the springtime. The Holyoke Veteran’s Act aims to get justice for 76 veterans who died from coronavirus exposure at the home and prevent an incident like that from happening again. If passed, the bill would require al... Read more »
(As Prepared for Delivery) Good afternoon, thank you to everyone for tuning in. Today, we are over nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic that has inflicted unthinkable losses on our country. Over 280,000 Americans have died from the virus and countless are suffering. Scores are sick or have lost loved ones. Our frontline health care workers are overwhelmed and overworked as they continue to risk ... Read more »
James Ryan, a history and social science teacher at the Springfield Honors Academy, says most if not all teachers are eager to get back in the classroom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic shaking up the school year nationwide. “We miss our kids. We miss each other. We miss the school communities,” Ryan said Wednesday. “We want to go back, but as we’ve been saying since the summer, not until it’s... Read more »
U.S. Reps. Joe Kennedy III and Richard Neal proposed an overhaul of federal safety standards at soldiers’ homes nationwide on Tuesday, building on a Kennedy proposal earlier this year after the COVID-19 pandemic took the lives of 76 veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home. The Holyoke Veteran’s Act calls for improved qualifications among administrative leaders and significantly broader oversight of... Read more »
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – A federal overhaul on the safety standards for veterans’ homes is being proposed by two Massachusetts congressmen. Congressmen Richard Neal and Joe Kennedy introduced the new bill in response to the deaths of 76 veterans at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home. The Holyoke Veterans Act calls for higher and more appropriate qualifications for the administration of veteran homes. For e... Read more »
The U.S. economy gained just 245,000 jobs in November, the smallest increase since April and the fifth consecutive month of declining gains. The unemployment rate fell to 6.7%, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Department Labor. But one reason the unemployment rate fell was that fewer people are looking for work. U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, said the numbers show the ne... Read more »
Following the House passage of H.R. 3884, the “Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2020,” Congressman Richard E. Neal, Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, released the following statement. “Today’s House consideration of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2020 or the MORE Act marks an important step in mitigating the impacts of the hi... Read more »
Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) November 2020 jobs report: “As we’ve seen throughout the course of the COVID crisis, the state of the economy is linked to the severity of the pandemic. The United States began to experience another devastating surge in cases, hospitalizations, and de... Read more »
