(As prepared for delivery) Thank you for calling today’s hearing. As we look ahead to the reauthorization of Title IV-B, we must work together on comprehensive action to help our nation’s young people in times of turbulence. All youth deserve safe, stable environments that allow them to learn and fully experience life. We hope and believe most youth can find that within their own families, sometim... Read More »
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: “Two years ago, Trump’s Supreme Court majority stripped the American people of a fundamental constitutional right and denied millions of their right to choose. They put countless lives at risk... Read More »
Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal joined Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle to announce a $960,000 earmark to invest in water infrastructure upgrades along Route 10 in Easthampton. The allocation was made possible through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) from the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency. Congressman Neal included funding for this project in the Fisca... Read More »
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement celebrating the protection of 1 million pensions by the American Rescue Plan: “Keeping workers and their families at the center of our economic recovery is how we broke records. When Ways and Means Democrats were crafting the American Rescue Plan with President Biden, we fought to include relief for the... Read More »
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 2017 mandatory repatriation tax is constitutional: “While I have disagreed with the Supreme Court on many issues in the recent past, today’s opinion upholding the repatriation tax recognizes the gravity of this case and rightfully recognizes the flimsy argumen... Read More »
Vanessa Ford, a frequent performer at civic events, sang an extended version of “Amazing Grace” Wednesday for Juneteenth commemorations in Springfield City Hall. And when she got to a soaring lyric “My chains are gone. I’ve been set free” the crowd of more than 200 crowded into an ornate meeting room — including Gov. Maura T. Healey and U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield — added their own cl... Read More »
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: “The wildest part is Republicans will read today’s report and still believe they can sell their deficit-busting tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations as a means of raising revenue and gr... Read More »
Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal released the following statement after joining his Democratic colleagues in voting against passage of H.R. 8070 – National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025. “As a long serving member of Congress, I am disappointed that the National Defense Authorization Act has become a political weapon for Republicans to push radical and bigoted ideas. The N... Read More »
(As prepared for delivery) Thank you all for being here today, and an especially warm welcome back to our own Congressman Deutch. I also want to congratulate Talia on graduating. At the outset, we all condemn antisemitism. Since our last hearing, we are saddened that the hateful actions and rhetoric targeting Jewish students has continued. These incidents have and disrupted campuses leaving too ma... Read More »
Today, 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 2024 jobs report: “How many months of consecutive job growth will it take for Republicans to stop rooting against an objectively strong economy? After 40, one would think they’d finally recognize our record-breaking success, built for workers, and ... Read More »
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after Republicans’ latest attempt to revive their failed fishing expedition: “This latest stunt is all the proof you need to see House Republicans have completely lost the plot. As recently as last week, they were calling the Department of Justice ‘rigged’ and ‘weaponized,’ and now, they are calling on ... Read More »
Donna Fiorentino of Wilbraham looked around Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Monday, at rows of white headstones standing at attention with military precision. “I just feel a sense of peace here,” she said. “You have to come and visit loved ones, especially today.” She and her husband, Jim, pointed out the graves of family and friends. He’s an Army veteran, having served from 1971 to 19... Read More »
Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) blasted today’s Supreme Court decision in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which upheld South Carolina Republicans’ unconstitutional Congressional maps: “This morning’s Supreme Court decision emboldens Republican lawmakers’ relentless war on our electoral system and our democracy itself. Across the coun... Read More »
Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding Congressman Dwight Evans’ health update: “I know from years of working closely alongside Dwight that you can’t keep a Philly kid down, and send my best as he makes a speedy and full recovery. It is no surprise that he is already using this diagnosis to broaden his constituent services b... Read More »
(As prepared for delivery) Mr. Chairman, I want to start off by sending my well wishes to our own Dr. Murphy. Praying his surgery is a success and that he’s back on this dais in no time, and in the meantime, I’ll be keeping him and his family in my thoughts. To the topic at hand, you know how I feel about this and for details to emerge from the press last night enrages me. It’s a crime to leak any... Read More »
