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Members of Congress want to pressure Major League Baseball to scrap plans to scale back the minor leagues, saying it would be "devastating" to clubs and communities that host them.
A bipartisan resolution, filed in the House of Representatives by Rep. Lori Trahan and other members of the Save Minor League Baseball Task Force, expresses support for the current roster of 160 minor league teams and "recognizes the unique social, economic and historic contributions that Minor League Baseball has made to American life."
Blasting President Donald Trump as “a draft dodger” and taking him to task for mocking veterans and soldiers, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran, walked out of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address in protest.
“I left the #SOTU after Trump — a draft dodger who has mocked Sen. John McCain, Gold Star families, and soldiers with traumatic brain injury — started talking about the good he has done for our military.”
“Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again! America's enemies are on the run, America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright,” Trump said to open his third State of the Union address on Tuesday.
While the topics discussed included a wide range of national issues, the military was heavily featured both in Trump’s talking points and the guests he invited to the event.
As President Trump gave his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the partisan divide was clear.
Republicans applauded when Trump said he has worked hard to make America stronger since he took office, and Democrats have been critical of the speech.
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton tweeted that he left the address after the president started talking about what he's done for the military.
The Senate's travesty of a trial for Trump, the tragedy of Kobe Bryant's death, a series of earthquakes and volcanos, Super Bowl-winning Chiefs and World Series-cheating Astros, Australia ablaze, the coronavirus, and the Doomsday Clock; they've all dominated our attention for weeks.
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WASHINGTON ? Defense innovation experts told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday that if they truly want the Department of Defense to embrace the leap-ahead technologies needed to compete, Congress must use its funding power to make major players out of small, disruptive tech firms.
Three Democratic Massachusetts congressmen are calling for a change to a law that led the Veterans Administration to deny more than 2,648 claims for emergency room visits at non-VA hospitals in Massachusetts over the last five years, leaving veterans to pay $6.37 million for those visits because they had not seen their doctor in the previous 24 months.
SALEM — Congressman Seth Moulton, who made mental health care for veterans and others a hallmark of his short run for president last year, invited a local mental health and suicide prevention advocate as his guest for Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
Moulton's guest was Kim Burditt, senior manager of programs and logistics for suicide prevention at the Washington, D.C.-based national nonprofit Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. TAPS supports those grieving the loss of a loved one whose life included military service.
Rep. Seth Moulton is planning to introduce a bill this week in response to the recent arrests of several scientists in the Boston area.
They’re called Confucius Institutes, and for about 15 years these centers for Chinese language and cultural education have proliferated at U.S. universities, drawing students eager to learn about the country.
Now, the Chinese government-funded organizations face more scrutiny as U.S.-China tensions over intellectual property and potential espionage intensify.
The arrest this week of a Harvard University chemistry professor for lying about his ties to China is shedding renewed light on the institutes and ratcheting up pressure for colleges to close them.