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The decision to suspend tours of the Capitol followed a chaotic cascade of announcements Wednesday from the World Health Organization officially labeling COVID-19 as a pandemic to Washington, D.C., declaring a state of emergency and barring large-scale gatherings to a congressman’s decision to share “sustained precautionary protocols.”
The U.S. Capitol will cease all public tours through at least the end of March amid mounting fears of a widespread coronavirus outbreak, according to multiple people familiar with the decision.
Democratic presidential hopefuls are nixing time-honored campaign staples like pressing the flesh and holding crowded voter rallies as they scramble to address the fast-moving coronavirus and adjust to campaigning in the midst of an epidemic.
(CNN) - As spring training gets underway, a group of bipartisan lawmakers is taking a swing at the league's proposal to reorganize the Minor League Baseball system.
A task force in the House of Representatives, led by two Democrats and two Republicans, has formed to challenge Major League Baseball over the future of its minor league system (MiLB).
Lawmakers across the country are focused on the coronavirus, and they are worried about their own safety as well as that of their constituents.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., put it bluntly.
"I could have coronavirus right now, Alison, and not show symptoms for 15 days, but give it to you," he told NBC10 Boston.
With the House preparing to take up transportation funding legislation this week, Rep. William Straus explains the rationale behind many of the bill’s provisions.
LYNN — Seth Moulton, the 6th district representative from Massachusetts, may have chosen the eve of one of the most politically significant days of this year’s election cycle to visit the Item, but it didn’t stop him from going over accomplishments central to the city and its surroundings.
ROCKPORT – Congressman Seth Moulton sounded off on the coronavirus COVID-19, public transportation and education at a Cape Ann town hall event Friday morning.
BOSTON — Elected officials from the Merrimack Valley are angling for a piece of the record fine assessed Columbia Gas for its role in the 2018 gas disaster to be diverted back to the region.
LEONEL RONDON, THE 18-YEAR-OLD KILLED in the Merrimack Valley gas explosions, can never be brought back, but other customers of Columbia Gas say they will rest more safely with the news that the company will no longer be doing business in Massachusetts.