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Trahan, Massachusetts Delegation Demand Steward Pay What They Owe to Workers at Nashoba Valley and Carney Facing Layoffs

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LOWELL, MA – Last week, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee, was joined by the entire Massachusetts delegation, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Representatives Richard E. Neal (MA-01), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Katherine Clark (MA-05), Seth Moulton (MA-06), Ayanna Pressley…

Trahan Celebrates 89th Anniversary of Social Security

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined House Democrats in celebrating the 89th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law and recommitting to protecting the program from proposed cuts. “For 89 years, Social Security has upheld a sacred promise that if Americans pay into the program over a lifetime of work, it’ll be…

Trahan, Warren, Markey Applaud Significant Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investment for Lowell Public Schools

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) applauded the selection of Lowell Public Schools as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 Renew America’s Schools Prize and Grant program, which helps K-12 public schools make energy upgrades that will decrease energy use and costs, improve indoor air…

Trahan Introduces Legislation to Strengthen Safety Standards for Oil and Gas Pipelines

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, introduced the Pipeline Accountability, Safety, and Environmental Standards (PASES) Act to improve safety, environmental, and transparency standards for oil and gas pipelines in the United States. The legislation, also introduced in the Senate by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA),…

Trahan Calls for Justice Department, Federal Enforcers to Investigate Steward

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting that they investigate actions by Steward Health Care that led to the company’s bankruptcy and proposed closure…

Trahan Statement on Steward Closing Nashoba Valley Medical Center

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, issued the following statement after Steward Health Care announced its plan to close two Massachusetts hospitals, including Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer: “Steward executives should be ashamed of what they’ve done to patients and providers here in…

Trahan, Blumenthal, Wild Lead Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen Research & Treatment Development for Brain Cancers

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Congresswoman Susan Wild (D-PA) led the introduction of the Bolstering Research and Innovation Now (BRAIN) Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen research and treatment development for brain tumors and to improve the accessibility of brain tumor…

Trahan, Healey, Driscoll Celebrate $450 Million EPA Award to Rapidly Accelerate Adoption of Heat Pumps

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LOWELL, MA — Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Governor Maura Healey, and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll celebrated the awarding of $450 million in federal funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s competitive portion of the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants, a $4.6 billion program created by the Inflation Reduction Act. Massachusetts was selected as part of a…

Trahan, Fusion Energy Caucus Co-Chairs’ Statement On Signing Of Fusion Energy Act

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WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressional Fusion Energy Caucus Co-Chairs Lori Trahan (D-MA), Don Beyer (D-VA), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) celebrated the signing of their Fusion Energy Act. The bipartisan legislation was included along with the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act in the text of S. 870, broad energy…

Trahan Statement on Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision

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LOWELL, MA – Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court granted sweeping immunity to presidents who break the law: “The notion that a sitting president can knowingly break the law to benefit himself and be immune from prosecution is disgraceful. The United States was founded on the belief that no one is above the law,…