Springfield, MA | By Wesley Days and Ryan Trowbridge, Western Mass News Massachusetts lawmakers are speaking out amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles and those who represent the...
Neal Statement on Trump Administration Terminating Clean Energy Grants
Jun 9, 2025
Congressman Richard E. Neal released the following statement after the Trump Administration terminated $3.7 billion in grants issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy...
Neal Statement on May 2025 Jobs Report
Jun 6, 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) May 2025 jobs report: “The warning signs are here:...
Larson and Neal Blast Supreme Court Decision Allowing ‘DOGE’ Access to Personal Data at Social Security
Jun 6, 2025
Today, 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 after the Supreme Court...
Neal Statement on CBO Reaffirming GOP Cuts will Leave Millions Without Care
Jun 4, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest analysis that reaffirmed the harm of...
Neal Blasts Trump’s Tariffs for Shrinking the Economy and Raising Prices
Jun 4, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest analysis affirmed that Trump’s reckless tariff...
Neal, Pallone, Wyden Release Latest CBO Estimates Showing 16 Million People Will Become Uninsured from Republican Health Agenda
Jun 4, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden...
Neal Statement on Trump Gutting of the IRS
Jun 3, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Trump Administration gutted the Internal Revenue Service budget: “Let’s call this what it...
Residential retrofitting program turns on high-speed internet for Bay Meadow Apts. in Springfield
Jun 2, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Jim Kinney, The Republican Luz Ramos, a 29-year resident of the Bay Meadow Apartments affordable housing complex in Springfield, helped Monday to turn on new, high-speed...
Neal Statement on Trump’s Latest Budget Proposal
May 30, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the President released his latest budget proposal that betrays the American people: “The...
Northeast Congressional reps disagree over impacts of ‘big, beautiful bill’ now headed to Senate
May 29, 2025
Washington, D.C. | By Dave Lucas, WAMC Northeast Public Radio Democrats are continuing to criticize the so-called “big, beautiful bill” that slashes social services and extends tax cuts passed...
Neal discusses fed cuts, Trump’s tax bill
May 28, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Ryan Feyre, The Reminder U.S. Rep. Richard Neal believes that what is currently going on at the federal level will ultimately only benefit the rich. In a sit down for a...
Mass. Sen. Markey, Rep. Neal call on feds to keep Springfield Small Biz Admin office open
May 28, 2025
Washington, D.C. | By John L. Micek, Masslive A cadre of Massachusetts pols is calling the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration to keep the agency’s satellite office in Springfield open...
Neal Statement on Federal Court Blocking Trump’s Reckless Tariff Tax
May 28, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after a three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade ruled that the International Emergency...
Neal Mourns the Passing of Chairman Charlie Rangel
May 26, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement mourning the passing of former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY): ...
Neal Leads Floor Debate Against the GOP Tax Scam
May 22, 2025
“Well, this big beautiful bill must be so beautiful that we are debating it at quarter past 4 in the morning to avoid the scrutiny for a piece of legislation that was authored just hours ago.”
Neal Blasts House Passage of the GOP Tax Scam
May 22, 2025
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after House Republicans jammed their GOP Tax Scam through the House under the cover of night: ...
Meet the Mass. lawmaker marshaling the resistance to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
May 19, 2025
Washington, D.C. | By John L. Micek, Masslive The top budget-writer for U.S. House Democrats says he’s spotted a weakness in Republican support for President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” And...
Ways and Means Democrats Fight for Families, GOP Votes to Leave Them Behind
May 14, 2025
Today, Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee doubled down on a painful and reckless scam that sells out their own constituents—their health care, their jobs, and their paychecks—to funnel more...
Neal Opening Statement at Markup of Tax Cuts for Billionaires, Health Care Cuts for Americans
May 13, 2025
(As prepared for delivery) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In 2017, Republicans passed a tax law that was supposed to pay for itself, raise wages, and help working families. None of that happened. Instead,...