LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Lowell Community Health Center (CHC) CEO Susan West Levine, and other Lowell CHC executives to announce Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants to provide direct patient services for new programs providing rapid HIV testing in community-based settings and support for refugee survivors of torture.… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) honored Mr. Frederick Thumith of Chelmsford by presenting and pinning him with his Purple Heart. It has been 53 years since his injuries in Vietnam and a decade since he started working on his Purple Heart request. With advocacy by Trahan’s office, Thumith’s long-deserved Purple Heart request was finally… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, Representatives Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), Mike Carey (R-OH-15), Katie Porter (D-CA-45), and Chris Stewart (R-UT-02) introduced the Stop Online Suicide Assistance Forums Act, bipartisan legislation that will make it a felony offense for anyone who uses mail or interstate communications such as online forums to assist in another… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that Massachusetts has been awarded $158.9 million in federal funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program (LIHEAP). The total funding amount announced today includes the $37 million increase approved in the recent government funding bill,… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Senator Ed Markey, UMass Lowell Chancellor Julie Chen, UMass Lowell professors, and key community partners to announce $2,495,019 in National Science Foundation (NSF) Safe and Clean Communities Grant program funding for UMass Lowell’s “Community Based Approach to Address Contaminants in Drinking… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, and Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-28)requested a briefing from TikTok on its strategy to curb misinformation, disinformation, and the potential incitement of violence on the platform ahead of the 2022 and 2024 U.S.… Read more »
Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Representatives Richard Neal (MA-01), James P. 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) wrote to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – This past Friday, Congresswomen Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, introduced the Informing New Factors and Options (INFO) for Reproductive Care Act, legislation that will support the creation of a coordinated national public awareness campaign to inform… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – On Wednesday, Congresswomen Lori Trahan (MA-03) and Annie Kuster (NH-02), members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led a coalition of New England Congressional Delegation members in requesting that President Joe Biden release stockpiles from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR) to help lower home heating costs for families across the… Read more »
LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Workers Credit Union President & CEO Doug Petersen and Assistant Vice President Doug Reedy to announce $150,000,000 in federal funding for Workers Credit Union (WCU). This funding is allocated through the Treasury’s Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) and will allow WCU to increase loans to low- and… Read more »
