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Congresswoman Trahan Announces $3 Million In Head Start Funding For Making Opportunity Count In Fitchburg

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) announced $3,052,650 in federal Head Start funding for Making Opportunity Count in Fitchburg. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Head Start. “Every child in this country, regardless of their circumstances at home, deserves access to a high-quality education and the opportunity to succeed. As a m...

Trahan, Healey Cut Ribbon on Cutting Edge Climate Technology Factory in Devens

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey were joined by Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper, and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Dr. Emily Reichert to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of Electric Hydrogen’s ne...

House Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Protect America’s National Security, Support U.S. Allies, Surge Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) supported passage of a bipartisan legislative package to deliver desperately needed aid to United States allies in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific as well as surge lifesaving humanitarian assistance to innocent Palestinians in Gaza. “This is an extremely dangerous moment....

Trahan, Massachusetts Lawmakers Demand Answers on Proposed Sale of Steward Physician Group to Optum

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, was joined by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) as well as Representatives Katherine Clark (MA-05), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Seth Moulton (MA-06), and William R...

Trahan, Garcia Introduce Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day Legislation

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Congressman Robert Garcia (CA-42) introduced legislation to designate April 17, 2025 as Cabodian Genocide Remembrance Day to recognize the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, which went on to murder nearly 2 million Camodians. “Today, we mark the solemn anniversary of the start of the Cambdian genocide that sa...

Trahan Pushes for Stronger Data Privacy and Transparency Provisions in Bipartisan Privacy Package

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee, highlighted necessary areas of improvement in the discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), a bipartisan privacy package agreed to by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-05) and Senate Comm...

Trahan Secures Nation’s Top Health Official’s Commitment to Support Massachusetts Steward Crisis Response

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, secured a commitment from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the nation’s top health official, to work with Massachusetts leaders as they continue responding to the Steward Health Care crisis. CLICK HERE or the image below to watc...

Trahan Statement on Iran Drone Attack on Israel

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LOWELL, MA – Today, House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) issued the following statement after Iran launched a drone attack on Israel: “I wholeheartedly condemn Iran’s drone attack on Israel. This is a dangerous and unnecessary escalation, and it comes at a time when the world’s focus should be on stopping the bloodshed in Gaza, releasing the host...

Two Trahan Tech Bills Tapped for Major Bipartisan Data Privacy Hearing

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WASHINGTON, DC – Next Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will host a bipartisan legislative hearing on multiple data privacy and transparency bills, including two pieces of legislation introduced by Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the Committee’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee. “Americans are sick and tired of their data being harvested, sold, and used a...

Trahan Hosts Third District Service Academy Nomination Ceremony

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LOWELL, MA – Yesterday, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) hosted a ceremony to celebrate military service academy nominees and their families from across the Third District. The event, held at the Dracut’s Harvey J Gagnon Harmony Hall, included remarks from Trahan, Dracut Town Manager Ann Vandal, and Dracut Historical Society President Kent Varnum. “Nominating young men and women to our nation’s s...

Trahan, Massachusetts Delegation Urge Biden Admin. to Distribute Shelter and Services Program Funding to Massachusetts to Support New Arrivals

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LOWELL, MA – Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), as well as Representatives Richard E. Neal (MA-01), Jim McGovern (MA-02), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Katherine Clark (MA-05), Seth Moulton (MA-06), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), and Bill Keating (MA-09) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secreta...

Trahan, EPA Officials Celebrate $1.2 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding for Anti-Pollution Program Based in Lowell

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) was joined by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator David Cash to announce $1,186,077 in federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI), an independent state agency based at UMass Lowell. The funding will support technical assistance for manufacturing facilities, retailers...

Trahan, Healey Announce Transformative Economic Development Project in Lowell

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Governor Maura T. Healey announced a major milestone in a transformative project that will bring new housing, economic development, technology jobs and workforce development to downtown Lowell. The research non-profit, Draper Laboratory (Draper) will become an anchor tenant in the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor (LINC), a transformative ...

Trahan, Healey, Driscoll Tout Massachusetts Climate Technology Leadership at Billerica Clean Hydrogen Facility

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Governor Maura T. Healey, and Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll visited Nuvera Fuel Cells in Billerica to tour the facility’s clean hydrogen technology and discuss federal and state initiatives to support the advancement of climate technology across Massachusetts. Nuvera was recently awarded $30 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law fu...

Trahan Leads 69 House Democrats Slamming Egregious Republican Attack on VA’s IVF Expansion

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LOWELL, MA – Today, House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) led a letter with 69 of her Democratic colleagues to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to affirm their support for VA’s recently announced expansion of access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). The lawmakers criticized a letter sent last week by House Republicans criticizing the po...