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.

ALTHOUGH THE pandemic can feel like it is winding down as vaccination rates tick ever-higher, Sen. Maggie Hassan asked a nursing home industry leader to look back to the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic and imagine how nursing homes would make themselves stronger in the future.

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.

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN and conservative groups looking to pick off a few Democratic votes and knock the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill off track are setting their sights on three members of New Hampshire’s delegation.

SHOULD WORKERS who lost hours because of the pandemic, but are still employed, be eligible for unemployment payments? Sen. Maggie Hassan said yes in a letter asking acting Labor Secretary Al Stewart to change a Labor Department rule and make those workers eligible for some benefits.

SENS. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen are getting behind a bill that aims to strengthen unions and includes a provision that could provide a back door for unions to work with employers to charge fees to workers who are not union members.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S DELEGATION is pushing for the next federal stimulus package to include money to help people living in poverty pay utility bills.

As New Hampshire reported 1,000 people dead from COVID-19, two members of the state’s congressional delegation introduced bills aimed at making treatment more affordable.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S REPRESENTATIVES both voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time Wednesday, and the state’s U.S. Senators said they were in favor of removing Trump from office, less than a week before the end of his term.

FOUR-FIGURE CHECKS for all Americans were a punchline last year when Democratic presidential candidate and universal basic income booster Andrew Yang celebrated New Year’s Eve 2019 with stops at breweries around New Hampshire, campaigning on a $1,000-per-month “universal basic income” proposal.

AFTER PRESIDENT Donald Trump‘s flummoxing veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, New Hampshire’s congressional delegation pledged to return to Washington, D.C., to override the veto.

It feels like finals week at college, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said on a videoconference Tuesday with the New England Council.

THE COMMANDANT of the New Hampshire Veterans Home has said it is not clear how COVID-19 got into the Tilton facility. When the first cases were detected a month ago, residents tested positive before staff.

AFTER A BIPARTISAN group of U.S. Senate leaders, including New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, unveiled a proposal for a $908 billion stimulus bill, local business owners and Laconia’s mayor said they saw a glimmer of hope.

PROJECTED WINNER Joe Biden named his picks for a handful of senior White House positions earlier this week. Among them was New Hampshire native Dana Remus as White House Counsel, advising Biden on the law.

THE TASK FORCE assembled to figure out how the New Hampshire Democratic Party flubbed down-ballot races is composed largely of party insiders — and that doesn’t sit well with progressive activists.

ABOUT THIS TIME last year, the Democratic Governors Association was calling Republican Gov. Chris Sununu a vulnerable incumbent.

THE COLORADANS WHO asked that state’s Attorney General and Secretary of State to investigate the Messner Foundation — which was started by Senate candidate Corky Messner’s former law firm — have withdrawn their complaint after being threatened with a lawsuit.

The Biden campaign has rolled out a list of 300 New Hampshire health care workers who backed the former vice president. One of them is Peggy Gilmour of Hollis, a former state senator who has worked in end-of-life care in southern New Hampshire as a visiting nurse, and as president and CEO of…

ABOUT 10 MINUTES after a few of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen‘s supporters started a small news conference in Manchester’s Arms Park about the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, a “swamp monster” walked in.

While the first COVID relief bill, the CARES Act, was passed after a few tense days in March, a second round of stimulus legislation has been sputtering along for months. Two bills passed in the Democratically-controlled House have been ignored by Republican Senate leaders, and a Republican-…

We know the plural of anecdote is not data. But a poll released this week by the University of Massachusetts at Lowell sure supports U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen campaign’s anecdata.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says the person elected president in November should nominate a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

STATE HOUSE SPEAKER Steve Shurtleff has heard some grumbling from members who want to get back into the State House.

Republican Senate nominee Corky Messner went into the primary with the money advantage, the backing of Republican elites including the sitting president, and the Republican Party’s vaunted store of voter data.

Results in the contentious U.S. Senate primary in Massachusetts were announced Tuesday night, despite hundreds of thousands of voters using absentee ballots in the Bay State.