“With nearly 10 million Americans — 330,000 Massachusetts residents among them — filing for unemployment in the last two weeks, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal is asking why the U.S. Department of Labor has yet to distribute emergency administrative funding so states can process the claims.”
Read More“Five cities in the 1st Congressional District represented by US Rep Richard Neal are getting 4.8 million under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act passed last week in Washington.”
Read More“Congressman Richard Neal held a telephone town hall meeting on Tuesday afternoon to address the concerns of constituents about the COVID-19 crisis. He was joined by Dr. James Lederer, Chief Medical and Chief Quality Officer of Berkshire Health System.”
Read More“U.S. Rep Richard Neal on Tuesday called for accountability after revelation about a dozen deaths at the Soldier's Home in Holyoke with several linked to the coronavirus pandemic. During a telephone town hall, meanwhile, Neal reassured a woman whose husband lives in the state run facility that public officials are working to understand what happened there and what can be done to halt the outbreak.”
Read More“Rep Richard Neal is pushing for COVID-19 relief package checks to be issued to seniors and vulnerable groups automatically without needing to file any additional information with the federal government.”
Read More“U.S Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., plans a second telephone town hall to update folks on the coronavirus pandemic and the medical, as well as governmental, response… Neal's guest will be Dr. James Lederer of Berkshire Health System in Pittsfield. Callers will get a chance to ask questions of Neal and Lederer.”
Read More“The package of legislation cleared the Senate by unanimous vote and nearly unanimous in the House of Representatives. On Saturday, House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal, who represents Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District, spoke to the press, outlining the provisions in the bill.”
Read More“U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., one of the authors of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed and signed into law Friday, doesn’t like thinking of it as a stimulus bill. Instead, the Springfield Democrat described it during an interview with reporters Saturday as a relief and stabilization bill — a confidence boost in the face of what he now thinks of as an ‘economic contagion.’”
Read More“Baystate Health announced Monday that it has received federal approval to use its Holyoke laboratory for testing of the coronavirus, putting the health system a step closer to being able to produce same-day results for the disease… State and federal officials including U.S. Rep. Richard Neal are assisting the hospital to expand its access to needed supplies from manufacturers.
Read More“The coronavirus relief bill enacted this week in Washington included additional funding for school nutrition programs, according to Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal. The Democrat, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, said there is also a provision that waives certain eligibility rules so that more schools can give out free meals as high-poverty districts like Springfield are doing.”
Read More“Springfield schools feed 30,000 children breakfast and lunch every day, but only a fraction of those students are stopping at designated sites offering meals to students while classes remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. ‘We have 14 sites spread out across the city and have served about 825 families so far this week, although we expect that to increase,’ said Daniel Warwick, superintendent of the Springfield Public Schools. Warwick met with U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., on Thursday afternoon to speak with Sodexo and school employees serving the food and families picking up the meals to go.”
Read More“Days after Gov. Charlie Baker submitted economic relief loans through the Small Business Administration, the Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to the agency on Wednesday backing his call for emergency assistance as result of the coronavirus… U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey signed the letter, as well as U.S. Representatives Richard Neal, Jim McGovern, Stephen Lynch, Bill Keating, Joseph Kennedy III, Katherine Clark, Seth Moulton, Ayanna Pressley and Lori Trahan.”
Read More“More than 7,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the United States as of Wednesday. In Massachusetts, 256 cases have been confirmed statewide and over 20 patients were hospitalized. Congressman Richard Neal visited our 22News studio in Chicopee to discuss what’s being done to protect citizens across the country.”
Read More“Stimulus checks from the federal government meant to head off long-term financial fallout from the coronavirus epidemic should go to people who make $50,000 a year or less, U.S. Rep.Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, said Wednesday.”
Read More“Rep. Richard E. Neal and Baystate Health President and CEO Mark Keroack plan to conduct a telephone call-in informational session on Wednesday for people interested in learning more about protecting themselves from the spread of COVID-19.”
Read More“U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., says he and the House Democratic leadership have reached an agreement with the Trump administration and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the nation’s coronavirus response. ‘We’ll see when we take it to the floor (of the House),’ Neal said by telephone from Washington Friday.”
Read More“Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled a broad package of proposals to help Americans affected by the coronavirus outbreak... ‘This vote tomorrow is going to be an act of confidence that... we're acting on a national health emergency,’ House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said.”
Read More“With the coronavirus continuing to spread across the country, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure proper measures are taken to prevent the spread of the virus to those who are most vulnerable to the disease.”
Read More“WWLP-TV 22News is coming back to the Berkshires... It was a deal reached with the help of U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, and U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, according to WWLP.”
Read More“Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) is demanding a “complete, immediate response” to the complaint in a letter to Azar sent Thursday night and also signed by Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), whose office is assisting the whistleblower. The two are also asking the Government Accountability Office and the HHS Inspector General to probe the allegations.”
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