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Rep. Porter: I’m angry. The House is not following its own rules. That’s not the way things are supposed to be, but unfortunately it’s the way things really are.
CONCORD — The fight by advocates and state Rep. Renny Cushing to stop incarcerating mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminal patients at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit in Concord made some headway on Monday.
WASHINGTON, DC— Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) today (Monday) sent a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asking it to investigate and hold hearings after reports that the White House and EPA concealed a critical report on the health impacts of PFAS chemicals, such as those that contaminated the groundwater around Pease.
New assertions, accusations and counter-accusations involving President Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels are aswirl today thanks to tweets by the president and remarks by his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
PROPUBLICA: “The Pentagon will have to tell us what it plans to do to stop this practice,” wrote U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat from New Hampshire, in an emailed statement to ProPublica.
Right to Know NH will meet on Saturday, May 19, at 9:00 A.M. in Concord at 8 North Main Street in the office of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers.
While the shenanigans are routine this time of year, what happened with the voucher bill or Freedom Scholarships or Senate Bill 193 last week is an example of heavy-handed politics practiced with a sledge hammer.
It keeps happening. Jared Kushner filed the wrong information about two of his loans in Brooklyn. He has had to update his disclosure form at least 40 times.
The terms of the agreement would require additional appropriations of approximately $23.4 million in State funds in fiscal year 2018 and $22.2 million in State funds in fiscal year 2019, which represents approximately $28 million in savings from previous estimates.