Last year, Joshua Frometa hit a home run when playing in front of the Walker Memorial Grandstand. This year, his team, the Westfield Starfires, returns to the field where there is now a fence that he can hit a second homer over. On Monday, city officials joined with the collegiate Westfield Starfires in Forest Park to celebrate the $4 million rebuilding of the 1946 field and grandstand that includ... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal on Monday attacked President Donald Trump’s proposed budget bill as well as efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to remake Social Security, while also criticizing the promotion of inflammatory rhetoric on social media as opposed to regular dialogue. Neal made the remarks as part of a panel at Wyckoff County Club in Holyoke titled “Building & Sustaining Livable ... Read More »
Our coverage of the Minnesota lawmaker shootings turns to local reaction from politicians within our area. One of them being Congressman Richard Neal, who we spoke to in western Massachusetts Monday. People in Minnesota and across the country still grappling with what happened this past weekend. The shooting deaths of former Minnesota House Speaker and current State Representative Melissa Hortman ... Read More »
Iran launches a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation an unprecedented attack that targeted Iranian expanding nuclear program and killed several top Iranian military leaders. The U.S. military reportedly is helping Israel intercept the missiles fired in Iran’s counterstrike. Local leaders are weighing in on the conflict. Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Richard Neal is hopeful... Read More »
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 Palantir to build a vast, centralized database that will compile deeply personal information on the American people. This database is reportedly set to include confidential taxpayer, identity, wage, ch... Read More »
WATCH HERE (As prepared for delivery) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Since Republicans reclaimed the power of a trifecta in Washington, we have seen nothing but an onslaught of unprecedented and irresponsible abuses of power. Whether it’s been the Elon Musk led DOGE shadow operation rifling through Americans’ confidential data or the blatant weaponization of the IRS to target critics of the President, t... Read More »
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 Demonstrations. This includes an $87 million grant issued to Sublime Systems, whose low-carbon cement manufacturing plant is scheduled to open in Holyoke in 2027. "The Trump Administration’s decision to kill c... Read More »
President Donald Trump’s administration recently canceled an $87 million grant issued to Sublime Systems — whose low-carbon cement manufacturing plant is scheduled to open in Holyoke in 2027. But the company said it will continue. Sublime has technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make cement using electricity, a process designed to cut down the amount of carbon relea... Read More »
Massachusetts lawmakers are speaking out amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles and those who represent the Commonwealth in Washington D.C. are sounding the alarm on President Trump’s reaction. We reached out to Congressman Richard Neal on Monday and, while he wasn’t available to go on camera, he did pass along a statement that stated that the president is showing a complete disregard of state and l... Read More »
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: revisions quietly wiped out 95,000 jobs from the past two months and participation in the labor force shrunk. The President is sowing cracks underneath the resilient economy he inherited—his irresponsible fli... Read More »
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 stepped in to allow Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ access to Social Security beneficiaries’ personal data. “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court should alarm every American. Common sense suggests that Elon Musk’s ‘... 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 analysis that reaffirmed the harm of the GOP reconciliation bill: “Today’s CBO analysis paints an even bleaker picture than we previously imagined: $2.4 trillion will be added to the debt and even more Americans will lose their health car... Read More »
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 scheme will slow growth and raise prices: “The CBO’s report confirms what workers and families have feared for months: Trump’s Tariffs are bad news for our economy, shrinking future output and driving up ... Read More »
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 (D-OR) released a statement following a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing 16 million people will lose coverage from the Republican reconciliation plan, including their failure... Read More »
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 is: a giveaway to tax cheats. Slashing the IRS budget will undermine customer service and enforcement, enable the richest to dodge what they owe, and shift the burden onto everyone else. This isn’t fiscal... Read More »
