Welcome to the web site of New Hampshire's Second Congressional District. I hope that you will find the content and links of this site useful and informative, and that it will serve as your first stop on the Internet for information and links on New Hampshire and Washington.

The The Bass Prescription Drug Help Desk provides New Hampshire residents with important information and assistance in lowering their monthly medication costs.

The Bass Student Help Site is dedicated to helping New Hampshire’s and other students find information on federal, state, and private sources of financial aid.

The Bass Military Help Desk provides New Hampshire residents with important information regarding the War on Terror.

The FCC has issued a consumer advisory, for citizens who have put their names on the National Do-Not-Call Registry and are called by telemarketers. To add your number to the registry, visit the Do Not Call Registery.

Congressman Bass has introduced legislation to improve New Hampshire's and our nation’s air quality. The Clean Air Planning Act (CAPA) is a bipartisan, bicameral bill to set caps on harmful emissions from power plants.

BILL PROVIDING CHANNEL 9 ACCESS TO NORTH PASSES HOUSE
Coos, Carroll, Grafton, and Sullivan County satellite subscribers to have access to WMUR
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Charles Bass (R-NH02) and Jeb Bradley (R-NH01) today successfully concluded negotiations to add their long-called for change to broadcasting laws that have prohibited Coos, Carroll, Grafton, and Sullivan County satellite subscribers from receiving WMUR, New Hampshire’s only local major network affiliate.

Bass Applauds Six Months of More Affordable Prescription Drugs in New Hampshire
Washington, D.C. – Washington, D.C. –U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) today commended six months of active operation of the Rx New Hampshire website and again called on Congress and the FDA to not obstruct such proven solutions.

Bass Urges Leadership to Assure Emergency Home Heating Funds
Washington, D.C. –U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) joined several of his Northeastern and Midwestern House colleagues calling on Congress to provide $600 million for emergency Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as part of supplemental funding being arranged for victims of recent hurricanes.  

Bass Helps Reinstate HUD Funding for New Hampshire’s Needy
Washington, D.C.- Today U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) expressed his gratification that Harbor Homes, Inc. of Nashua would have their 5-year Mainstream Housing Section 8 Voucher Grant reallocated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD).

Bass Votes to Protect Investors
Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Charles Bass today opposed H.R. 3574, the Stock Option Accounting Reform Act, that would prohibit the enforcement of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new rules on stock option expensing.  It passed the House 312 – 111. 

Bass Cites Drug Importation Prohibition in Opposition To Australia Free Trade Agreement
Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Charles Bass today voted against the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, which passed 314 – 109.

Bass Announces Record Federal PILT Funding for New Hampshire
Washington, D.C.- Representative Bass welcomed nearly a million dollars into New Hampshire communities from the Department of Interior’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.

Bass Opposes Corporate Tax Bill
Washington, D.C.- Representative Bass today voted against corporate tax legislation to remove the foreign sales and extraterritorial income exclusions from the U.S. tax code. The legislation passed 251 - 178.

Bass Again Opposes Misguided Energy Policies
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) today again opposed a flawed energy bill because it failed to represent a regional balance. The Energy Policy Act (H.R. 4503), which passed the House 244 – 178 today, would give away billions of tax dollars to energy companies, prohibit a lawsuit filed by the State of New Hampshire on MtBE, and would not promote the level of energy alternatives that would lead to true energy independence or environmental balance.

Bass Applauds Governor’s Air Pollution Report
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) today applauded Governor Craig Benson’s report Air Pollution Transport and How It Affects New Hampshire and again called for the passage of multi-pollutant legislation to address the problem.

Bass Reacts to Passage of House Budget Plan
U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) said tonight that he supported the House Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Resolution tonight to impose some fiscal discipline on lawmakers, but expressed concern about the spending plan, which passed 215-212.

Bass Pushes for Satellite Television Reform
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) today at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing advanced efforts to permit access to the Manchester-based ABC affiliate, WMUR (channel 9) by all New Hampshire satellite subscribers.

Bass Bill Mandates Increases to Fully Fund 40% of Special Ed
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) introduced legislation today to require federal increases to fully-fund 40% of the cost of special education by 2010. Under Bass' bill, New Hampshire would receive an additional $70 million in education funding in 2010.

Bass Welcomes Proposed Approval of NH Plan to Eliminate MTBE
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Charles Bass (R-NH02) welcomed today’s announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed approval of New Hampshire’s plan to opt-out of the federal reformulated gasoline program that led to the use of MTBE.