LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) announced that two grants would be awarded to the Lowell and Chelmsford Housing Authorities from the Department of Housing and Urban Development worth a combined total of $572,960. The Lowell Housing Authority will receive $241,227, and the Chelmsford Housing Authority will receive $331,733. Both awards, which are CY 2019 Mainstream Program a... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), along with Massachusetts Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, and Representatives Richard Neal (MA-01), Seth Moulton (MA-05), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), James McGovern (MA-02), William Keating (MA-09), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), Joseph Kennedy III (MA-04), and Katherine Clark (MA-05) are calling for answers from the Department of Health and Huma... Read more »
LOWELL, MA - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) announced that Montachusett Opportunity Council and Community Teamwork, Inc are the recipients of $6,219,880 in Head Start grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The first grant comes from the Administration for Children and Families at the Office of Head Start for Montachusett Opportunity Council, Inc of Fitchburg, MA... Read more »
HAVERHILL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) hosted Congressman John Larson (CT-01) for a Social Security Town Hall meeting with seniors in the Merrimack Valley to discuss the work Congress is doing to expand and strengthen Social Security and advocate for seniors. Congressman Larson serves as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee and is a national leader on... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA) introduced the bipartisan Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act [H.R. 4974] with her colleagues Representatives Jack Bergman (R-MI), Buddy Carter (R-GA), David Trone (D-MD), Hal Rogers (R-KY), and Annie Kuster (D-NH). The MATE Act would standardize substance use disorder training to ensure that all prescribers of controlled med... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA) released this statement following her vote in favor of formally affirming the impeachment inquiry. “Today, I stood with my colleagues to decisively affirm an impeachment inquiry. I have stood up to the President on many issues: tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires; his efforts to gut pre-existing condition coverage; attacks on communities of ... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) applauded the inclusion of a key component of her bipartisan Stop Sewage Overflow Act in the Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act, which was marked up and advanced out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee this morning. “Communities across the United States – particularly in the Northeast and Midwest – ar... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA) released this statement following her vote in favor of H.Res. 296, affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. “I was proud to support this resolution to see that the mass murders committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians are recognized as genocide. The United States must never be silent in the face of such atroc... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Lori Trahan (D-MA) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) secured passage of an amendment to the Collage Affordability Act (CAA) during committee markup that would require institutions to prominently display the costs of tuition, room and board, and other expenses on their website in the form of a tool called the Net Price Calculator. By doing so, students would be empowe... Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the bipartisan Dignity in Aging Act (H.R. 4334) with Congresswoman Trahan’s support. This bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (OAA) increases funding for vital programs that help aging Americans live independently and with dignity. The Older Americans Act (OAA), originally passed in 1965, is the prima... Read more »
