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Democratic presidential candidate Seth Moulton on Sunday pledged to do “whatever I can” to ban all assault weapons and high-capacity magazines if he’s elected next year, calling gun violence a “national emergency” in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia.
The Massachusetts congressman from Salem, who served in Iraq, said “weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools.”
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran who is running for president, will introduce a plan Tuesday evening to expand military mental health services and will disclose that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after his combat deployments during the Iraq War.
A powerful congressional committee holds a hearing on single-payer health care.
It sounds like the perfect place for lawmakers looking to score easy political points and cut new sound bites for one of the nation’s biggest policy debates. Right?
Not if you’re talking about Wednesday’s hearing in the House Budget Committee. Members from both political parties questioned Congressional Budget Office officials in a quest for new ammunition in a health care fight that has already lit up the 2020 campaign trail.
As President Trump demonstrated Wednesday, he might be the focus of endless congressional investigations, but when it comes to the question of impeachment he holds all the cards. At least for now.
Impeachment was the talk of Washington Wednesday, as Democrats huddled to discuss whether — and how — to proceed.
Some members of the Massachusetts delegation are leading the calls for President Trump's ouster. They include Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Seth Moulton — both presidential candidates.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been preaching restraint, without taking impeachment off the table.
State cannabis laws have left one group of medical marijuana users in limbo: veterans. Rep. Seth Moulton has three bills that could help.
"There are doctors -- we've heard all the stories -- who just tell their patients that they may lose their benefits if they talk about this because it's breaking federal law to use cannabis," Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton told Newsy.
Medical marijuana is legal in more than half of U.S. states, but current cannabis laws have left veterans in limbo.
While we’re pretty meh on U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton’s presidential aspirations, he has a great idea with his call to service announced Sunday.
The Iraq War combat veteran’s plan proposes giving education or job training benefits, based on years of service, to the 33.4 million Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 who step up to serve. Someone who serves three years would have 100% tuition paid at an in-state school. For job training, those benefits would be $14,000 for one year; $19,000 for two years; or $24,000 for three years.
The Trump administration is trying to assure Congress that it does not want to start a war with Iran, but some lawmakers who fought in Iraq are not so sure.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford both briefed Congress on Tuesday about Iran. Shanahan told reporters earlier on Tuesday that the U.S. military buildup in the region has stopped Iran and its proxies from attacking U.S. forces, but the crisis is not yet over.
The Lynn Post Office will be rededicated on Friday to the city’s former mayor and postmater, Thomas P. Costin Jr., the U.S. Postal Service announced.
When he was elected in 1956 at age 29, Costin was the youngest serving mayor in Lynn’s history. Costin headed a registration drive for then-candidate John F. Kennedy in 1958, according to a Globe article at the time. After he was elected, President Kennedy appointed Costin to Postmaster of Lynn in 1961.
The Trump Administration is turning up the heat on Iran, broadcasting a new plan to send as many as 120,000 U.S. forces to the Middle East to counter purported “identified, credible threats” from Iran.
But in the world of the Pentagon, there are plans you present to politicians, and then there are real plans. And three U.S. military officials involved in planning and overseeing military forces in the region tell TIME that no actual, executable plan, or anything like it, exists for a large-scale troop deployment to the Gulf.