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Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman who’s best known for trying to topple Nancy Pelosi after the 2018 midterms, is insisting that voters are over that, and that the pair of Bostonians who just greeted him are atypical. We’re sitting in a loud sandwich shop near the statehouse, and a woman has just stopped by our table to wish him luck in his long-shot presidential run, while the man at her side looks more skeptical, because, he tells Moulton, “I like Nancy Pelosi!” Moulton, of course, is not running a presidential campaign about the Speaker of the House.
WASHINGTON — The intelligence that caused the White House to escalate its warnings about a threat from Iran came from photographs of missiles on small boats in the Persian Gulf that were put on board by Iranian paramilitary forces, three American officials said.
Overhead imagery showed fully assembled missiles, stoking fears that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps would fire them at United States naval ships. Additional pieces of intelligence picked up threats against commercial shipping and potential attacks by Arab militias with Iran ties on American troops in Iraq.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently offered a vigorous defense of the Veterans Health Administration, arguing that its problems were a "myth" peddled by Republicans who want to privatize the system. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," she said.
Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a former Marine Corps officer, re-filed a package of bills in Congress Monday that would push the Department of Veterans Affairs to embrace medical marijuana.
Last week, a federal panel drafted a slew of conservation recommendations to help the imperiled and declining North Atlantic right whale population. Now Congress may enter the fray.
A House bill to create a decade-long, $50 million grant program to help protect the North Atlantic right whales was approved Wednesday by the National Resource Committee and is heading to a vote by the full House membership.
In the five days since Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report dropped, stories about the Democrats’ escalating intra-party conflict have permeated the news media. Mueller’s findings, the narrative goes, have driven a wedge between the members of the party who are clamoring for an impeachment inquiry and the ones who view the matter largely as an unwelcome distraction from their kitchen-table agenda. The pundit class has been a fevered mess of speculation: Have the Democrats finally reached their breaking point?
Seth Moulton isn’t running for president — yet. But the Massachusetts congressman is joining a growing chorus of Democrats who believe that his party should try to beat President Trump in 2020 on national security.
Bay State lawmakers will be in Lawrence on Monday to unveil pipeline safety legislation six months after gas-fueled explosions rocked the Merrimack Valley city and two neighboring towns.
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey and freshman U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan will be joined by local officials, state legislators and first responders, as well as the family of Leonel Rondon, the 18-year-old teenager who was killed when a house exploded and the chimney toppled onto the car he was in.
A class at a Waldorf school in the northeastern part of Massachusetts has urged Congress to the pass the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act.
Fifth graders at the Waldorf School at Moraine Farm in Beverly sent letters to Congressman Seth W. Moulton, representative of the Massachusetts Sixth District, urging that he support the bill and get it passed. The letters were accompanied by drawings.
WILMINGTON — There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for those working to clean the contaminated Olin Chemical site.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had added the site to its Emphasis List. The site’s placement on the list means it will be a top priority for the administration. It is one of 15 sites on the list and is the only site in Massachusetts.