WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
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Washington (September 18, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) this week joined Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in a bipartisan push for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release funds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as swiftly and at the highest level possible.
Appropriators worked on a bipartisan basis to make roughly $4 billion in federal LIHEAP funds available for the coming year.
The senators call on HHS to swiftly distribute LIHEAP aid before winter home-heating bills arrive in order to help states and eligible households man...