By Samuel Gelinas, Hampshire Gazette SPRINGFIELD — Calling the looming impact of cuts to health care contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill and the expected expiration of tax credits from the...
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Baystate Health warns of $146M yearly hit to its finances of Trump policy bill
Dec 15, 2025
By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.com SPRINGFIELD – President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, passed this summer, will cost Baystate Health $146.7 million a year, its president...
Neal’s ‘Automatic IRA Act’ is Back
Dec 15, 2025
By Brian Anderson, 401K Specialist Magazine House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) today reintroduced the Automatic IRA Act, which would expand retirement coverage for...
Neal Reintroduces Automatic IRA Bill
Dec 15, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC— Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) reintroduced the Automatic IRA Act, which would expand retirement coverage for millions of workers. The...
Neal Blasts Latest Republican Attempt to Gut Health Care
Dec 12, 2025
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement blasting House Republicans for another unworkable attempt to hike costs on millions of...
With health care credits on the verge of expiring, Neal calls out Republicans for lack of urgency
Dec 11, 2025
LISTEN HERE By Adam Frenier, New England Public Media The U.S. Senate Thursday rejected an extension of tax credits under the Affordable Care Act. Those subsidies are due to expire at the end of the...
Neal Statement on House Vote on NDAA
Dec 10, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal released the following statement after voting for the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. “As a member...
Neal Opening Statement at Markup of H.R. 6500, the “AGOA Extension Act”
Dec 10, 2025
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. AGOA has been the cornerstone of America’s partnership with Africa for nearly twenty-five years. At a moment when the White House is actively undermining that relationship,...
Neal Opening Statement at Health, Social Security, Trade, and Tax Markup
Dec 10, 2025
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. After two months apart, it’s nice to see the whole Committee meet together again. There is certainly a lot of work in front of us to meet the needs of the American people,...
Charlemont’s Berkshire East recognized by U.S. Rep. Neal as model for economic recovery
Dec 9, 2025
by Madison Schofield, Greenfield Recorder CHARLEMONT — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal highlighted Berkshire East Mountain Resort this week as a success story of rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic. Neal,...
Neal Highlights Democratic Leadership that Kept Businesses Open and America’s Recovery the Strongest in the World
Dec 8, 2025
Charlemont, MA – Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal joined Jon Schaefer, CEO of Berkshire East Mountain Resort, to highlight how Democratic leadership has helped keep businesses open and...
Neal Statement on Latest Public Health Assault by Trump Administration
Dec 5, 2025
SPRINGFIELD, MA— Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine...
Mayor says ‘we got Trumped’: Sublime Systems ‘pauses’ work in Holyoke
Dec 4, 2025
By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.com HOLYOKE — Sublime Systems will pause work on its Holyoke plant and cut its workforce by 10%. Sublime Systems, the Somerville and Holyoke startup planning to...
The Obamacare cliff’s leadership vacuum
Dec 4, 2025
By Laura Weiss, Andrew Desiderio, John Bresnahan, Punchbowl News The deadline to extend Obamacare premium subsidies is just three weeks away. And Congress is nowhere on this issue. There’s been...
Neal supports investigation into alleged drug boat strikes
Dec 4, 2025
LISTEN HERE By Adam Frenier, New England Public Media The Armed Services committees in both the House and Senate are looking into strikes by the Trump Administration, against boats alleged to be...
March for the Food Bank returns for 16th year
Dec 3, 2025
by Dennis Hackett, The Reminder With food insecurity on the rise, and many still recovering from the delayed release of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in November, the March for...
Warren, Mass. pols call on Trump, RFK Jr. to stop attacks on funding for anti-poverty efforts
Dec 3, 2025
By John L. Micek | jmicek@masslive.com A coalition of Massachusetts politicians, led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is calling on the nation’s top public health official to stop an attack...
Neal says pressure is on Republicans to find a solution to expiring ACA credits
Nov 27, 2025
LISTEN HERE By Adam Frenier, New England Public Media President Donald Trump is floating a plan to extend health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The proposal would extend the credits,...
Neal on Lower Drug Prices for Medicare
Nov 25, 2025
Latest win from Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act SPRINGFIELD, MA—Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the latest slate of...
Union Station 5th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony
Nov 24, 2025
WATCH HERE By Ben Goodman and Danae Holmes, Western Mass News SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - While people across the country prepare for their Thanksgiving feasts, it’s never too early to begin...