Holyoke, MA | By Alexander MacDougall, The Hampshire Gazette U.S. Rep. Richard Neal on Monday attacked President Donald Trump’s proposed budget bill as well as efforts by the Department of...
Congressman reacts to Minnesota lawmaker shootings
Jun 16, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Matt Price and Hanna Guidry, Western Mass News Our coverage of the Minnesota lawmaker shootings turns to local reaction from politicians within our area. One of them being...
Congressman Richard Neal reacts to attacks between Israel and Iran
Jun 13, 2025
Worcester, MA | By Olivia Lemmon, Spectrum News Iran launches a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation an unprecedented attack that targeted Iranian expanding nuclear program and...
Doggett, Ways and Means Democrats Demand Answers on the Trump Administration’s Palantir Surveillance Database
Jun 12, 2025
Democratic Members of the Ways and Means Committee, led by Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), are demanding information on the Trump Administration’s secretive partnership with...
Neal Opening Statement at Hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
Jun 11, 2025
“The Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans are about to make history. They will be responsible for the biggest theft of health care we’ve ever seen.”
Trump cancels $87 million grant for planned low-carbon cement plant in Holyoke
Jun 9, 2025
Holyoke, MA | By Jim Kinney, The Republican President Donald Trump’s administration recently canceled an $87 million grant issued to Sublime Systems — whose low-carbon cement manufacturing plant is...
Mass. lawmakers react to National Guard deployment into Los Angeles
Jun 9, 2025
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...