JUST FOUR MONTHS after the last American planes left the Kabul airport, Sen. Maggie Hassan‘s bill with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to erect a monument to the War on Terror on the National Mall has been signed into law.

The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would make more National Guardsmen and reserve members eligible for burial in state veterans cemeteries, including the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.

THE QUAINTNESS and intimacy of campaigning in small rooms in New Hampshire butted up against the reality of a crowded primary.

AFTER A fall lull, presidential potentials are crawling around New Hampshire again, with two senators and a former vice president set to visit the state over the next 10 days.

THE PROPOSAL for reshaped Congressional districts in New Hampshire has so far done little to change the trajectory of the 2022 election.

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU HAS ROBBED political junkies of one of the better parlor games in recent memory: speculating which way the dominoes would have fallen, had he opted for a Senate run.

By Josie Albertson-Grove

SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS like fentanyl have driven overdose deaths in New Hampshire over the past several years, but countries that export fentanyl — notably, China — face few consequences for what Americans see as turning a blind eye.

CITIES, TOWNS AND COUNTIES in New Hampshire received millions from the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill signed into law in March — including $44 million for Manchester and $16.5 million for Nashua.

IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST an incumbent legislator, it’s not uncommon to say every bill your opponent has sponsored, every vote they’ve taken, is wrong, bad and maybe downright diabolical.

ACTIVISTS IN MERRIMACK have been ringing the alarm for years about water safety, expressing frustration about what they see as the slow rate of action.

AS HER 2022 REELECTION fight inches ever closer, Sen. Maggie Hassan has had a chance this week to highlight her cooperation with two of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate: Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

IN THE WORLD OF elections, the latest sign of changing seasons isn’t the start of fall foliage, but the Republican National Committee‘s resumption of training for its local staff and party leaders.

AFTER A VIRTUAL MEETING about Afghanistan with ambassadors and other officials from NATO countries this week, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said she hoped NATO nations — members of the the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — will stay attentive to women’s issues in Afghanistan, though American troops…

The images of the evacuation from Kabul have been upsetting, no matter one’s experience. But for war veterans, particularly those who served in Afghanistan, the effects could be more difficult to deal with.

IT HASN’T been all roads, bridges and broadband on Capitol Hill this summer.

THE HOUSE IS BACK in session next week to take up the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in the Senate this month, and the Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion bill to expand Medicare benefits, provide free community college and pre-kindergarten and a host of other social services –- which mea…

SENATE DEMOCRATS’ multi-trillion-dollar budget package is unlikely to get any Republican votes, but look closely (and maybe squint a little) — there is inter-party cooperation.

TO ENCOURAGE STATES to support sexual assault survivors through the court process, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bill this week to tie state efforts to federal funding.

SENATE REPUBLICANS blocked a bipartisan infrastructure bill from moving forward on Wednesday, but New Hampshire’s senators said they remain optimistic about the possibility of a deal involving both parties.

New Hampshire’s senators say they are still engaged with the bipartisan group working on an infrastructure bill that could get at least a few Republican votes, though its passage is far from assured.

A BILL TO RAISE the federal minimum wage is expected to come up in Congress this fall, and national progressive groups are already beginning to agitate for support from New Hampshire’s two moderate Democratic senators.

THE DEMISE ALONG party lines of the expansive voting bill known as the “For the People Act” was mourned by New Hampshire’s all-Democratic delegation Wednesday.

POINTING TO A disparity in coverage between private insurance for working adults and the Medicare insurance most retirees use, Rep. Annie Kuster told the House Energy and Commerce committee this week of the bill she and a small bipartisan group have introduced, reintroduced and reintroduced …

AFTER THE U.S. SENATE passed measures Wednesday designed to help the United States compete with China’s technological innovation and manufacturing, Sen. Maggie Hassan pointed out several provisions she had pushed — from a measure to help high-schoolers take college classes, to a move for the…

With bills in the Senate and House, Rep. Chris Pappas and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen are looking to take nationwide a Manchester program that helps children through trauma.

AS SEASONAL BUSINESSES gear up for the summer tourist season, the shortage of workers looms.

THE $1.9 TRILLION STIMULUS bill became law more than two months ago, but New Hampshire’s senators and representatives are still making the case for the package, and touting funds as they are released.

In Manchester on Wednesday, leaders of the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester briefed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on their “mobile crisis units” that go to help people in mental health crisis.

DURING A HEARING of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen renewed her criticism of President Joe Biden‘s Sept. 11 deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan as “arbitrary,” and again called on the Biden administration to recognize violence against women there.

AFTER A MEETING with White House staff and a group of moderate House Democrats, Rep. Annie Kuster said she felt optimistic about the possibility of passing a big infrastructure bill on a bipartisan basis, though her Republican colleagues have been skeptical of the scope of President Joseph R…

AS THE NEW Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra renews the nationwide public health emergency declaration around opioid abuse this week, Rep. Annie Kuster is asking Becerra to broaden the emergency declaration.

MOVE OVER, Red Arrow. Politics and Eggs? How very 2019.

AFTER HER 2019 “Turn the Tide Act” stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate last session, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is set to reintroduce the bill on Thursday.

ALL FOUR MEMBERS of New Hampshire’s delegation voted for the latest stimulus bill. Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen voted for the bill with the Senate on Saturday, and sent the revised bill back to the House, where Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas voted for it on Wednesday.

THE TWO PREVIOUS COVID-19 relief bills passed in 2020 with the votes of all four members of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation voting to send stimulus checks to every American making less than $100,000, with checks tapering off for people who made more than $75,000 in 2019.