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Trahan, Community Teamwork Leaders Celebrate $1.5 Million Federal Investment in Youth Workforce Development Program

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Community Teamwork, Inc. leaders in Lowell to celebrate $1.5 million in federal funding awarded to the organization’s YouthBuild program, which provides educational and vocational training to at-risk youth to help prepare them for careers in construction and the culinary arts. “For the past 25 years, Community…

Trahan Slams Extreme Project 2025 Proposals During Speech on House Floor

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Co-Chair Lori Trahan (MA-03) spoke on the House floor ripping the dangerous proposals laid out in Project 2025, the blueprint for the next Republican president to eliminate presidential checks and balances, roll back women’s reproductive freedoms, and gut the middle class.  “Project 2025 will take us backwards to…

U.S. House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Trahan’s Bipartisan Legislation to Advance Rare Disease Treatments for Kids

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, celebrated the unanimous passage of her bipartisan Creating Hope Reauthorization Act of 2024 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation will reauthorize a key program that incentivizes the development of new drugs and…

Trahan Statement on the Passing of Methuen Mayor Neil Perry

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) issued the following statement after the passing of Methuen Mayor Neil Perry: “I’m heartbroken to learn of the passing of Mayor Neil Perry. He lived and breathed Methuen. Everyone in the Commonwealth knew that no matter the situation, Neil never backed down from a fight if it was in the best interest of…

Bipartisan Trahan Bill to Advance Rare Disease Treatments for Kids Clears House Committee

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, secured unanimous full committee passage of the Creating Hope Reauthorization Act of 2024, her bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a key program that incentivizes the development of new medications and treatments for children battling…

Trahan, Miller-Meeks Secure House Passage of Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Health Care Access for Kids

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) and Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-01), members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, celebrated passage of their Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care Act in the House of Representatives. The bipartisan legislation introduced in July 2023 breaks down…

Trahan Statement on Steward Congressional Hearing

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, issued a statement following the conclusion of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Steward Health Care’s mismanagement: “It’s shameful that while nurses from Nashoba Valley and St. Elizabeth’s had the…

Trahan, Warren, Markey Celebrate $1.2 Million for Safe Streets in Haverhill, Clinton and Fitchburg

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WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced more than $25 million in funding for Massachusetts through the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program to enhance roadway safety for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. $1.2 million of the investment…

Trahan, Massachusetts Delegation Announce Over $17 Million in Victim Compensation and Assistance for the Commonwealth

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WASHINGTON - Yesterday, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and the entire Massachusetts delegation, announced that they’ve secured more than $17 million in funding for victim assistance and compensation from the Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime. This funding supports Massachusetts programs that provide…

Trahan, Markey, Warren Slam Steward CEO and Demand de la Torre Take Accountability for Steward’s Failures

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LOWELL, MA – Last Wednesday, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and labor leaders from 1199SEIU and the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) held a press conference in response to Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre’s refusal to appear at the September 12 Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)…