Maggie Hassan

I joined Senator Burr to urge the Treasury to ensure that PPP participants have full access to the Employee Retention Tax Credit.

I called on Senate leadership to protect Granite Staters from out-of-State income taxes in the next legislative package.

I strongly support addressing this in upcoming relief legislation by providing assistance through the tax code that is tailored to startup businesses.

It is a difficult time in our country, so we are really grateful for your interest and willingness to serve.

Was that because the FBI is limited in its tools or capacity to monitor, charge, or arrest these individuals prior to January 6th?

It is really important for us to understand what the processes are.

There appears to have been no communication or effort by DHS to designate this.

DHS could have initiated it.

We must align our counterterrorism resources and our intelligence-gathering efforts to ensure we are focused on this dire threat.

It is astounding to me that, even if it is raw intelligence, given what the stakes were on January 6th, that that kind of sharing was not routine and that it did not happen.

I think it is important for us to understand whether this was a failure in information-sharing product or practice.

I also plan to keep the pressure up on social media companies to work harder to ensure that their platforms are not used as a tool to organize violence.

There is no question in my mind that there was a failure to take this threat more seriously, despite widespread social media content and public reporting that indicated violence was extremely likely.

I especially want to take a moment to acknowledge the heroism of the officers of the U.S. Capitol Police, law enforcement, and other employees of the Capitol who bravely worked to protect our democracy on January 6th.

I would certainly encourage--and I am sure my colleagues here would, too--that all leadership in law enforcement reach out to us if they feel the resources are strained or need bolstering in some way.

The Secretary of Homeland Security has the authority to designate events with national and international significance as National Special Security Events.

The January 6th attack marked a once-in-a-lifetime failure, and now we have the duty to ensure that the Federal Government is doing everything in its power to make sure another attack like this never happens again.

One of the things I would observe is sometimes ahead of events like these, just scheduling ongoing check-ins with leadership at all of the agencies that need to coordinate can have the effect of sharing information in real time.

I will also add that I am a cosponsor on the Taxpayer Right to Know and the End Government Shutdown bill.

The American people need to know that any new policies are fact-based and not politically motivated.

As the lead Democrat on the Federal Spending Oversight Subcommittee, I introduced bipartisan legislation to implement several recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office to eliminate duplicative Federal programs and…

I think a legislative solution to DACA is the optimal solution.

Why the heck don't they get the same wages as everybody else?

I am proud of the people of New Hampshire and the businesses of New Hampshire for being the first state in the country to outlaw the sub-minimum wage while I was Governor.

I am really grateful. I also want to thank you for mentioning to Senator Casey the interest that you and I have talked about around workers with disabilities.