Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after voting against Republicans’ cruel and partisan funding bill that abandons the...
Neal Statement on Latest Trump Attack on American Health Care
Mar 10, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Marketplace...
House Democratic Health Leaders Demand Answers on Firings of Medicare & Medicaid Staff
Mar 10, 2025
Washington, D.C.House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), along with Ways and Means Health...
Donald Trump urged to appoint N Ireland envoy amid US investment ‘concern’
Mar 10, 2025
Washington, D.C. | By Myles McCormick and Jude Webber, Financial TimesDonald Trump has been urged to appoint a special envoy to Northern Ireland as US lawmakers warn of “genuine concern” over the...
Congressman Neal reacts to DOGE budget cuts impacting federal buildings
Mar 7, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Raegan Loughrey, Western Mass NewsThe Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, continues cutting costs by canceling the leases of several federal offices across the country...
Neal, Sewell, Davis Demand Answers on DOGE’s Latest Incursion into the American People’s Most Sensitive Data
Mar 7, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Ranking...
At Outlook 2025 lunch, worry about Washington mixes with optimism
Mar 7, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.comU.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal ran through a list of ongoing and upcoming achievements Friday at the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Outlook...
Neal Statement on February Jobs Report
Mar 7, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) February 2025 jobs report: “When the...
Local shelter workers say HUD cuts would destabilize ‘an already unstable environment’ for housing in the Berkshires
Mar 6, 2025
North Adams, MA | By Claire O'Callahan, The Berkshire EagleLocal shelter providers are worried changes within the Department of Housing and Urban Development could gut their response to housing...
Dems Introduce Resolutions Ending Trump’s Tariff Authority on Mexico & Canada
Mar 6, 2025
Washington, D.C.Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today introduced Resolutions to terminate President Trump’s unlawful use of “emergency”...
Congressman Richard Neal reacts to President Trump’s address
Mar 5, 2025
Chicopee, MA | By Emma McCorkindale, 22 NewsCongressman Richard Neal spoke shortly after Trump’s address. Congressman Neal says he hopes for a restoration of relations with Ukraine as calls...
The Silvio O. Conte Federal Building in Pittsfield is designated for possible sale by the Trump administration
Mar 5, 2025
Pittsfield, MA | By Greg Sukiennik, The Berkshire EagleThe Silvio O. Conte Federal Building has been labeled as “surplus” and therefore under consideration for possible sale by the Trump...
Trade war gets hot, ‘freezing’ decisions of a Canadian employer in Western Mass.
Mar 4, 2025
Palmer, MA | By Jim Kinney | jkinney@repub.comClyvanor Corp. has 75 American workers at its plant in Palmer. Tariffs that went into effect Tuesday are expected to make this and other work around the...
Veteran fired from Springfield Vet Center is Rep. Neal’s guest at Trump’s address to Congress
Mar 4, 2025
Washington, D.C. | By Greta Jochem | gjochem@repub.comThis story has been updated with information from a congressional hearing on Tuesday morning. When President Donald Trump addresses a...
Neal Statement on Trump’s Trade War
Mar 4, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement lambasting Trump’s Trade War: “It’s only taken the president 43 days to wreak...
$4.1M federal grant to cover Union Station streetscape improvements
Mar 3, 2025
Springfield, MA | By Ryan Feyre, The ReminderRoadway and sidewalk improvements are coming to the area around Union Station thanks to a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and...
Neal Announces Guest for Presidential Address to Congress
Mar 3, 2025
Washington, D.C.Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal announced that he will be joined by Michael Slater, former Program Support Assistant with the Springfield Vet Center, as his guest for the...
Neal, Thompson, Sewell Slam Closure of 100 IRS Offices, Demand Answers from Administration
Feb 28, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Tax Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Thompson (D-CA), and Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Terri Sewell (D-AL)...
Neal, Larson, Davis: “Jeopardizing the Social Security Administration Jeopardizes Social Security Beneficiaries”
Feb 26, 2025
Washington, D.C.Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John Larson (D-CT), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Ranking...
Neal Opening Statement at Tax Markup
Feb 26, 2025
Washington, D.C.Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This markup comes at a time when our Republican colleagues are pretending that business is usual when in fact it’s anything but. While they seek to gut...