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Ann McLane Kuster was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second Congressional District of New Hampshire, narrowly losing by just 3,551 votes in 2010. Kuster, an attorney, has not held elected office, but her parents did. Her mother, Susan McLane was a State Senator, and her father Malcolm served as Mayor of Concord, on the Executive Council, and ran for Governor as an Independent in 1972. Kuster, of Hopkingtom, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978, in the third class with women, and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.

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Ann McLane Kuster
stated on June 5, 2017 in a meeting with nonprofit leaders:

For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is "the only human contact in their life from week to week."

By Nick Reid • June 9, 2017
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on December 3, 2015 in an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio:

Says the Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 would not "pause" the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.

By Clay Wirestone • December 19, 2015
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on January 6, 2015 in an interview with the Concord Monitor at her Concord office :

Says she has opposed measures to weaken the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulatory bill and campaign-finance legislation when they were offered as stand-alone bills.

By Nick Reid • February 26, 2015
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on February 20, 2014 in in a radio interview:

On delaying a health care mandate on business.

By Jim Haddadin • March 7, 2014
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on November 11, 2012:

Says she is "entering in the most diverse class ever," of U.S. Representatives

By Jake Berry • November 21, 2012

Marilinda Garcia
stated on June 27, 2014 in in a campaign tweet:

Says U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster used $293,000 of taxpayer money to send campaign mail.

By Jim Haddadin • August 4, 2014
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on October 9, 2013 in an advertisement:

Ann Kuster turned "a blind eye to those in need of funding" by voting "against funding for our nation’s veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health."

By Kaitlin Mulhere • October 16, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 9, 2013 in a press release:

"Even if you took literally every single ounce of platinum in the world, it still wouldn’t add up to enough needed to pay down our nation’s debt."

By Jake Berry • January 14, 2013
Charles Bass
stated on September 26, 2012 in an ad “Dancing,” released September 26, 2012.:

Ann McLane Kuster is "for a government takeover of health care more radical than Obamacare. And she supports a $700 billion cut to Medicare for current retirees."

By Jake Berry • October 22, 2012
Charles Bass
stated on August 27, 2012 in an August 27, 2012 advertisement, “Not Working,” aired in and around New Hampshire.”:

Ann Kuster "supports the government takeover of healthcare, which robs Medicare of over $700 billion."

By Jake Berry • September 12, 2012

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