NH gets ag disaster aid declaration

New Hampshire received disaster assistance help from the Agriculture Department. That means farm operators in all ten counties are eligible to apply for low-interest federal emergency loans.

Gregg, Sununu urge Bush to halt emergency crude oil deposits

New Hampshire Senators Judd Gregg and John Sununu have joined their colleagues in writing to President Bush to request that the Energy Department temporarily stop deposits of domestic crude oil into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves to ease record-high gas prices.

Gregg calls for Iraq to match U.S. reconstruction funding

New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg has introduced a bill calling for Iraq to start matching U.S. funding assistance for reconstruction on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Gregg says he remains deeply concerned with reports of waste, fraud and abuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars in Iraq. He says the bill initiates a transition process where Iraqi funds are used to develop Iraq.