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April 30, 2018

Senator Hassan Highlights Net Metering Bill at Mine Falls Dam

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Senator Maggie Hassan visited Mine Falls Dam in Nashua on Friday, where she met with city officials, toured the hydroelectric facility, and discussed legislation she recently introduced to support net metering.

April 25, 2018

Seacoast Online Editorial: Hospital’s opioid treatment program shows great promise

by Editorial

WASHINGTON-- In case you missed it, the Seacoast Online editorial board yesterday applauded Senator Maggie Hassan’s bipartisan bill to train more new doctors to prescribe medication-assisted treatment as part of her efforts to combat the fentanyl, heroin, and opioid epidemic. The editorial board commended Senator Hassan’s timely efforts, which complement the important work the York Hospital Recovery Center is doing through its new medication-assisted treatment program that is open to anyone struggling with addiction in Kittery, Wells, Berwick, South Berwick, and Sanford, Maine, and in New Hampshire.

April 23, 2018

Seacoast Online on Senator Hassan Bipartisan Bill to Allow Safe Disposal of Unwanted Drugs in Hospice

by Karen Dandurant

CONCORD - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill last week aimed at closing one more loophole contributing to the opioid crisis.

April 23, 2018

Senator Hassan Valley News Op-Ed: On Earth Day Renewing Our Commitment to a Cleaner Environment

by Senator Maggie Hassan

Senator Hassan penned an op-ed for the Valley News in honor of Earth Day, highlighting the importance of combating climate change and working to build a cleaner, healthier environment for generations to come.

April 20, 2018

WMUR: Hassan co-sponsors bill to help more doctors treat addiction

WASHINGTON – In another effort to combat the drug crisis, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan is co-sponsoring a bill to make it easier for doctors to prescribe medications to help ease people off opioids.

April 16, 2018

Seacoast Online: Hassan Gives Smuttynose a Boost

by Max Sullivan

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Senator Maggie Hassan visited Smuttynose Brewing Company in Hampton on Friday, where she raised a glass to the company’s new leadership and highlighted the importance of supporting New Hampshire’s innovative small businesses and growing craft brewing industry.

April 11, 2018

Senator Hassan Presses Mark Zuckerberg on the Tension Between Facebook’s Profits and Its Users’ Privacy and Well-Being

WASHINGTON – As a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Senator Maggie Hassan yesterday questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the joint Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees hearing titled, “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.”

April 09, 2018

Union Leader: Senators Hassan and Capito Union Leader Op-Ed: A Bipartisan Step to Combat the Opioid Crisis

by Senators Maggie Hassan and Shelly Moore Capito

Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) wrote an op-ed in the Union Leader yesterday, highlighting the bipartisan Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers (CORC) Act that they introduced to expand coordinated, comprehensive care to Granite Staters and Americans struggling with substance use disorders.

April 06, 2018

WMUR: Army veteran wounded in accident gets help to return home

HUDSON- Senator Maggie Hassan visited the home of Spc. Josh Keller yesterday – an army veteran who was wounded in an accident off-duty last fall in Washington state – where she toured his new accessible living unit and commended Spc. Keller and his family for their sacrifice and service to New Hampshire and the country.

March 21, 2018

Senator Hassan Boston Globe Op-Ed: Imagine a secretary of education who understands public education

by Senator Maggie Hassan

WASHINGTON – Senator Maggie Hassan wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe highlighting the importance of a having a secretary of education who believes in the value of a strong public education system, unlike Secretary Betsy DeVos, who reaffirmed in a recent 60 Minutes interview that she does not understand the harm that voucher programs can have on the public school system.

March 20, 2018

Seacoast Online: Senator Hassan: Women deserve medical facts, not falsehoods

by Senator Maggie Hassan

When a woman facing an unintended pregnancy seeks medical advice, she deserves accurate and honest medical facts so she can determine her own future. What she does not need, however, is false or inaccurate information when making a deeply personal health care decision.

March 12, 2018

Senator Hassan Concord Monitor Op-Ed on the Bipartisan CARA 2.0 Act: A Critical Next Step in Our Response to the Opioid Crisis

by Senator Maggie Hassan

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Senator Maggie Hassan penned an op-ed for the Concord Monitor yesterday, highlighting the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery (CARA) 2.0 Act as a critical next step in responding to the devastating fentanyl, heroin, and opioid epidemic in New Hampshire and across the country. Senator Hassan recently joined her colleagues in introducing the bipartisan CARA 2.0 Act to help save lives and to strengthen prevention, treatment, recovery, and law enforcement efforts.

March 02, 2018

ICYMI: Under Questioning from Senator Hassan, Amtrak CEO Outlines Steps to Maintain Vermonter Train Service

by WCAX

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it yesterday, Senator Maggie Hassan questioned Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing about the future of the Vermonter train service. Anderson had previously testified before the House transportation committee indicating that service lines like the Vermonter could be discontinued due to the lack of a safety system known as positive train control.

February 12, 2018

Seacoast Online: Sen. Hassan Pushes for Job Training, Career Growth

by Hadley Barndollar

At Exeter Hospital, Senator Hassan highlighted the hospital’s workforce partnership with Great Bay Community College to train medical assistants and medical office specialists – an example of the type of partnership that the Gateway to Careers Act would support. Click here for more information on the bill.

February 09, 2018

Union Leader Op-Ed: Retraining Programs Can Provide Gateways to New Careers

by Senator Maggie Hassan

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Senator Maggie Hassan penned an op-ed in the Union Leader yesterday highlighting new legislation she introduced to support individuals who are unemployed or underemployed by strengthening job training and removing barriers that prevent them from completing a degree or credential program and succeeding in the workforce. Click here for more information about Senator Hassan’s Gateway to Careers Act.

February 06, 2018

WMUR: Hassan plans to introduce bill to help train workers for better jobs

by Adam Sexton

— U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, plans to introduce workforce development legislation this week on Capitol Hill in an effort to help workers transition to better jobs.

February 01, 2018

CBS: The backstory of Trump's foundering opioid fight

[Trump’s] rhetoric omitted any mention of the actual solutions proposed by experts on the front lines of the crisis. The president has repeatedly called the opioid epidemic a top priority for his administration. But as members of Congress donned purple ribbons meant to call attention to the crisis, Mr. Trump avoided calling for more federal money to fight back against the prescription drug scourge.

February 01, 2018

Senator Hassan TIME Op-Ed: Trump Has Been All Talk, Little Action on the Opioid Crisis

by By Maggie Hassan

WASHINGTON – On the three month anniversary of President Trump’s opioid commission issuing its final report, Senator Maggie Hassan penned an op-ed today in TIME on how the Trump Administration has taken little to no action on most of the recommendations put forward by the commission to combat the fentanyl, heroin, and opioid epidemic that is devastating communities in New Hampshire and across the country.

January 31, 2018

ICYMI: Senator Hassan Highlights Need for Less Talk, More Action from Trump Administration on Opioid Crisis

WASHINGTON – In response to the President’s State of the Union address, Senator Maggie Hassan highlighted the urgent need for less talk and more action from the Trump Administration on critical bipartisan priorities such as combatting the heroin, fentanyl, and opioid crisis.

January 22, 2018

New York Times: Senators Shaheen and Hassan “Trying to Find a Bipartisan Solution to the Government Shutdown”

by Mikayla Bouchard and Hamilton Boardman

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, the New York Times highlighted that Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan have been meeting as part of a bipartisan group of Senators working to come together to reach a government funding agreement.

“Virginia is not the only state to have both of its senators in on the negotiation. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are continuing their state’s tradition of pragmatic New England politics.”

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