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Re “Youth activist pushes for lower voting age” (Metro, Feb. 11): Thank you for telling Sydney Down’s story. I am proud of her advocacy, and I support her cause.

Americans put a lot of faith in 16-year-olds. We let them drive, hire them at our businesses, and make them pay taxes.

ANDOVER, MA — Massachusetts has the worst traffic in the nation, and that traffic is threatening to Rep. Seth Moulton said Monday in remarks at the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce's Congressional Breakfast.

"This is all about connecting people to jobs and housing," Moulton said. "And it matters now more than ever not just because the region is growing—it's been doing that for most of history—but because of how rapidly the new economic revolution is shifting where people live and work."

Rep. Seth Moulton, vice chair of the House Budget Committee, blasted proposed State Department funding cuts yesterday at a committee hearing on the Trump administration’s proposed budget.

“The president’s former Secretary of Defense [James] Mattis said, ‘If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition,’ ” Moulton said to acting U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. “Why does this budget do the exact opposite, cutting the State Department by 21%?”

“The US government must recognize its proper role in this innovation ecosystem,” Chris Brose of Anduril Industries told Congress on Feb. 5, 2020. “Innovative companies do not need the U.S. government to try to play venture capitalist.”

Congress may have to relax its oversight -- or at least learn to take leaps of faith -- when funding defense technology research if it wants to see dramatic improvements in capabilities.

ANDOVER — Congressman Seth Moulton kicked off his speech at the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce's Congressional Breakfast by touting one of his pet policies, revitalizing transportation throughout the state.

“We literally have the worst traffic in the nation,” he said at this week's event, “and several studies have shown that it is the single biggest thing that is holding the Massachusetts economy back.”

The administration says it’s determined to pull out of Middle Eastern “forever wars” so it can focus on countering the rise of Russia and China.

But many of President Donald Trump’s actions send a much different message — from his decisions to send thousands more troops to the Mideast to last month’s killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. And that mismatch is already fueling skepticism on Capitol Hill about the proposed $741 billion defense budget that the White House is rolling out next week.

Editor, Times-Dispatch:

For me, the pivotal moment at the State of the Union address wasn’t House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tearing up a copy of President Donald Trump’s speech (as amusing at that was) but rather the walkout by Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., a decorated Marine combat officer who led some of the first troops into the war in Iraq.