Shaheen Highlights Key Investments Secured in Fiscal Year 2025 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill
**Shaheen secured more than $24 million for critical projects across New Hampshire**
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Subcommittee and a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, participated in a full committee markup of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 CJS Appropriations bill. In a 26-3 vote, the Committee approved the bipartisan legislation, which would provide $73.7 billion in discretionary funding, including more than $24 million for critical projects across the Granite State, helping invest in a wide range of programs benefitting New Hampshire and the country.
“As Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee, I’m proud to deliver this bipartisan bill to invest in many of our top priorities to keep our communities safe, fuel a healthy economy, advance America’s leadership in science and innovation and much more,” said Senator Shaheen. “The resources we secured will help support survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, combat sextortion for our youth, counter the opioid epidemic, build the workforce of tomorrow by investing in good jobs today, strengthen our global leadership in space exploration and innovation, take on Big Tech and ensure a resilient climate by bolstering research and conservation efforts. The CJS Subcommittee covers a lot of ground – and I’m proud to have shaped this legislation in a way that benefits the Granite State and all of America.”
Summary of Shaheen priorities included in the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025:
Secures Vital Funding for Economic Development, Trade and Manufacturing
Senator Shaheen secured $100 million for Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Tech Hubs Program, a $59 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level, to support additional Tech Hubs implementation grants like the one Shaheen helped advocate for that went to ReGen Valley Tech Hub earlier this year. Shaheen also helped secure $25 million for EDA’s Good Jobs Challenge, which invests in workforce development to accelerate local economic growth and rebuild regional economies to be resilient to future challenges, while providing job opportunities to American workers.
Shaheen also secured continued funding for EDA's partnership with the Northern Border Regional Commission and its Assistance for Biomass Closure Communities program—programs that are particularly impactful in the North Country.
The Committee-approved FY 2025 CJS Appropriations bill includes $206 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security, a $15 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level and the highest funding level ever for the agency, which will support local businesses in understanding export requirements and prevent sensitive exports from falling into the wrong hands. The bill also includes $648 million for the International Trade Administration (ITA), a $25 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level, including Senator Shaheen’s language directing ITA to fill client-facing vacancies at the agency so small- and medium-sized businesses can take advantage of the agency’s export promotion assistance.
The Senator also included $175 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Program to encourage manufacturing growth and identify opportunities that accelerate local economies and fuel global competitiveness, as well as language directing the Department of Commerce to work with institutions of higher learning and underrepresented groups to expand workforce development for work in semiconductor manufacturing. Shaheen also secured $47.7 million for NIST’s new U.S. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Institute, which will develop standards, tools and tests to help ensure AI systems operate safely.
The Committee-passed legislation includes resources to advance cutting-edge research and invest in American competitiveness, including $50 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing USA Program, a $13 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level. The legislation also includes language directing NIST to study the feasibility of a Manufacturing Institute focused on the manufacturing of goods beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
Strengthens America’s Leadership in Space Exploration and Innovation
To strengthen America’s continued leadership in space, Shaheen helped secure $7.65 billion for NASA Exploration, $30 million more than the President’s budget request, to keep making progress on the Artemis missions, and $812 million within NASA Science for heliophysics research, a $7 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level and $25 million above the President’s budget request. This amount includes $39 million for the HelioSwarm mission led by University of New Hampshire. The Committee-passed bill includes $5 million for NASA’s innovative nanomaterial research and $2.369 billion for Earth Science including full funding for UNH’s Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) instrument.
Keeps Americans Safe and Secure, Protects Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
Shaheen secured multiple provisions that build on her work protecting survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and online crimes.
Namely, Senator Shaheen secured $739.5 million, the highest funding level ever, for grants authorized by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This includes $10 million for continued implementation of her Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights grant program, $56 million for legal assistance for victims, $54 million for transitional housing assistance and $750,000 for a National Institute of Justice study on online crimes against children. She also secured critical language to protect veterans’ benefits, encourage the Department of Justice (DOJ) to continue investigating sextortion and updated language regarding implementation of her Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights legislation.
The bill releases $1.9 billion from the Crime Victims Fund (CVF), providing $400 million above the President’s budget request and restoring grants to FY 2023 enacted levels. The CVF provides critical support through direct assistance and programs offered by victim service providers to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, human trafficking and other violent crimes.
The bill provides necessary funding for our federal law enforcement personnel to keep Americans safe and supports state and local law enforcement with new resources to hire over 2,000 more officers nationwide. The bill funds Byrne-Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) program—the core of federal funding for state and local law enforcement—at $720 million. Byrne-JAG core funding to states and territories is $473 million, which is $127 million more than the FY 2024 enacted level.
The bill also provides critical funding for DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support America’s youth. OJJDP is funded at $407 million, which is $32 million more than the FY 2024 enacted level. The bill includes increases for vital programs, including youth mentoring grants ($107 million), Victims of Child Abuse Act grants ($45 million) and Missing and Exploited Children Program grants ($107 million).
The bill works to combat the opioid crisis impacting communities across the Granite State and the country with $610 million in dedicated grant funding to be used in response to the substance use disorder crisis. Of this, $445 million is for Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act grants, which fund specialized court docket programs like drug, mental health and veteran treatment courts and substance use treatment programs administered by state and local correctional facilities. The bill also funds the Community Oriented Policing Services anti-heroin task force program at $36 million, an increase of $1 million compared to the FY 2024 enacted level.
To ensure communities can thrive for generations to come, the bill includes report language directing National Institute of Standards and Technology to report on the benefits to housing affordability that can be achieved through more resilient construction methods that protect homes and residents from natural disasters.
Promotes Competition and Enforces Antitrust Laws
Senator Shaheen worked to ensure the bill promotes economic freedom and opportunity by guaranteeing at least $288 million in funding for DOJ’s Antitrust Division—a record level that is $55 million above the FY 2024 enacted level. The bill also includes language allowing the Antitrust Division to retain and use all of the pre-merger filing notification fees it collects in FY 2025, even if those collections exceed the $288 million appropriation for the agency.
Bolsters Support for Ocean Research and Conservation Efforts
Senator Shaheen secured many key resources to invest in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other initiatives to support our fisheries, ocean research and conservation efforts. Specifically, the Committee-passed legislation includes:
- $10 million for the NOAA Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping that builds on NOAA and UNH’s existing partnership through the Joint Hydrographic Center/Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping to support and grow the Nation’s deep water, shallow water and coastal mapping capabilities and data holdings, in partnership with industry.
- $2 million increase and report language to ensure Northeast fisheries observer coverage (for a total of $13.5 million) along with language to encourage the adoption of electronic monitoring.
- $1.5 million for new workforce training and research partnership between NOAA National Weather Service and the Mount Washington Observatory.
- $5 million for the second year of a NOAA aquaculture cooperative institute.
- $700,000 increase for the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (which supports Great Bay).
- Increased or protected funding for other key NOAA programs, including:
- $1 million increase for the Joint Hydrographic Center
- $2.5 million for disaster preparedness
- $2.5 million for groundfish research
- $500,000 to integrate observer data into fishery stock assessments
- $82 million for Sea Grant, including:
- $1 million for Young Fishermen’s Development Act
- $2 million for American Lobster research
- $1 million for PFAS research in the marine environment
- $3 million for a new industry-led survey for New England groundfish to build confidence in NOAA surveys. Also includes:
- $8 million increase for NOAA surveys and assessments and $4 million for the fisheries survey contingency fund, as well as report language to ensure continuation of the Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program trawl surveys. The report includes new language directing NOAA to incorporate the findings from cooperative and groundfish research into stock assessments.
- $50 million for research and conservation efforts to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale, of which $30 million will help defray costs paid by the lobster fishing industry to protect right whales and to support State research and monitoring of whales.
- $224.6 million for NOAA climate research and $34 million for the National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund.
Senator Shaheen also included the following Congressionally Directed Spending projects for New Hampshire, totaling more than $24 million.
|
Recipient |
Project |
Account |
Funding ($) |
|
Children’s Law Center of New Hampshire |
Children’s Law Center of New Hampshire Master of Social Work Funding Project |
Byrne |
$92,000 |
|
City of Concord |
Concord Police Department Active Shooter Response Equipment & Training |
COPS |
$100,000 |
|
City of Portsmouth |
ICACCOPS & NH ICAC Enhanced Capacity Program |
COPS |
$1,000,000 |
|
City of Rochester |
Rochester Police Department Virtual Reality Training Project |
Byrne |
$70,000 |
|
Derry Police Department |
Derry, Londonderry, Windham Police RMS/CAD System |
COPS |
$1,750,000 |
|
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire |
Squamscott Fields Salt Marsh Resiliency Project |
NOAA ORF |
$2,100,000 |
|
Grafton County Sheriff’s Department |
Grafton County Sheriff’s Department Computer Forensic Unit |
COPS |
$90,000 |
|
Hampton Police Department |
Hampton NH Police Law Enforcement Accountability Program Project |
Byrne |
$925,000 |
|
Hillsborough Police Department |
Hillsborough Police Department Public Safety Radio Equipment Project |
COPS |
$950,000 |
|
Manchester Police Department |
City of Manchester Radio Replacement Project |
COPS |
$4,000,000 |
|
Nashua Police Department |
De-escalation Range Simulator |
Byrne |
$85,000 |
|
New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence |
Increasing Access to Legal Systems for Victims and Survivors |
Byrne |
$400,000 |
|
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department/Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve |
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: Research Facility |
NIST Construction |
$5,000,000 |
|
Newmarket Police Department |
Dispatch and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Upgrade |
Byrne |
$353,000 |
|
Newport Police Department |
Newport Police Department Records/Dispatch Software |
Byrne |
$132,000 |
|
NH Dept. of Safety – Division of State Police |
New Hampshire State Police Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Cybercrime Response Van |
COPS |
$360,000 |
|
Northern Border Dispatch |
Northern Border Dispatch Border Security Communication |
COPS |
$225,000 |
|
Plaistow Police Department |
Plaistow Regional Public Safety Communications Infrastructure Project |
COPS |
$1,000,000 |
|
Seacoast Science Center |
Seacoast Science Center Public Presentation of the Principles of Ocean and Climate Literacy |
NOAA ORF |
$3,500,000 |
|
Somersworth Police Department |
Somersworth Police Portable Radios |
COPS |
$123,000 |
|
University of New Hampshire |
uSafeUS Expansion |
Byrne |
$840,000 |
|
University of New Hampshire |
State-of-the-art systems control and automation for land-based aquaculture at UNH |
NOAA ORF |
$738,000 |
|
University of New Hampshire |
Building Capacity for PFAS Analysis in NH |
NIST STRS |
$890,000 |
|
TOTAL: |
|
|
$24.7 million |
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