Ayotte, Shaheen, and Shea-Porter in Portsmouth Thursday

The city will see not one, not two, but three members of the New Hampshire Congressional Delegation on Thursday dealing with different issues of great importance to the Portsmouth area and beyond.

According to Ben Wakana, who serves as U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter's press secretary, Shea-Porter, D-NH, is scheduled to tour the Pease Air National Guard Base in Newington on Thursday morning at 9:30 p.m. to help land some of the Air Force's new KC-46A air tankers. She is scheduled to meet with members of the media with Brig. Gen. Carol Protzmann, commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard, to talk about why Pease is the right place for some of the new tankers. A decision on which two bases will receive some of the new tankers will be made on May 1.

At 9:50 a.m., U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is scheduled to talk with members of the media at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine about the importance of promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) career paths for women. According to Mark Gordon, who serves as Shaheen's press secretary, the shipyard offers women several careers that utilize these areas.

U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, is scheduled to meet with business owners in Manchester and then in Portsmouth to discuss efforts to prevent an online sales tax. According to Liz Johnson, the senator's press secretary, Ayotte is scheduled to meet with Portsmouth area business owners at Two International Group at Pease International Tradeport to discuss this issue.

Ayotte, who serves on the Senate Commerce Committee, has repeatedly voted against legislation that seeks to approve an online sales tax.