SPRINGFIELD, MA — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump Administration will now cooperate with the formal transition process: “I’m glad the Administrator did her job and that the Biden-Harris Transition Team can now fully... Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, MA — Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called on General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily Murphy to immediately ascertain that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the successful candidates for the office of President and Vice President. Although major news organizations declared President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris the winners of... Read more »

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal’s attitude toward legislating under a Democratic-led White House might aptly be described as “never let a crisis go to waste.” The Massachusetts Democrat wants to take a page from his party’s 2009 playbook, when the Obama administration took office amid the wreckage of the financial crisis and enacted a nearly $800 billion stimulus that went as far afi... Read more »

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Trump announced a series of drug pricing measures at a press conference this afternoon: “While the coronavirus surges across the country, President Trump is spending his twilight days in office pushing throu... Read more »

SPRINGFIELD –The way Congressman Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, sees it, the three most urgent problems facing the nation should be tackled at the same time. Neal spoke to Reminder Publishing and Focus Springfield in a new edition of the “Government Matters” television program on Nov. 13. Neal said, “There’s a broad consensus that addressing the pandemic in a Biden A... Read more »

LEE — When Covid-19 struck in the spring, Stephen Boyd, CEO of Boyd Technologies, an advanced materials and technology company in Lee, knew he needed to retool his business to help in any way it could. With support from a $2 million state Manufacturing Emergency Response Team grant, Boyd quickly shifted work in its medical and life sciences facility and began making personal protective equipment a... Read more »

LEE — When the coronavirus pandemic first began, and a terrified public stayed home, employees at Boyd Technologies kept going to work. The family-owned company quickly tailored its medical and life-science manufacturing labs off Route 20 to make face masks. Eight months later, it is on track to make 60 million per year — half surgical and half N95 respirators. All the while, Boyd workers also wer... Read more »

Lee, MA – Congressman Richard E. Neal joined Boyd Technologies CEO Stephen Boyd and CCO Matthew Boyd for a tour of their advanced materials and technology company and discussion of their response to COVID-19. The facility in Lee is currently scaling up production for personal protective equipment (PPE), including surgical masks and N95 respirators. According to the company, they will have annual c... Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, MA – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President-elect Joe Biden announced the formation of his Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board: “Unlike the Trump Administration, President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris take this pandemic seriously. Their swift formation of a COVID-19 advisory board should reassure t... Read more »

SPRINGFIELD, MA – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) October 2020 jobs report: “Today’s numbers demonstrate the limits of economic recovery during a still-uncontrolled pandemic. The new record-breaking spikes in cases across the country imperil our ability to climb out of the COVID rec... Read more »