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Two of Congress' youngest members joined millennials in Center City Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon to talk Uber, the student debt crisis and other issues affecting the country's youngest generation of voters.

Thanks to governmental agencies and private donors veterans have been able to turn their lives around. They're now living at Bedford Green, a community of 69 apartment homes at the Bedford VA's Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Medical Center. The furnished one-bedroom apartments offer permanent, supportive housing for homeless veterans and those at-risk of homelessness, 55 years and older.

Middlesex Community College, in efforts led by Mount Wachusett Community College, and in partnership with Northern Essex, and North Shore community colleges, recently received a four-year, $4 million federal TechHire grant to provide workforce training in advanced manufacturing in Worcester, Middlesex and Essex counties.

A draft bill introduced in the House would require all congressional bills, resolutions and documents to be published in machine-readable format.\

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The 2014 Digital Accountability and Transparency Act standardizes a governmentwide data structure to track federal spending, and the Searchable Legislation Act, introduced July 13 by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), would similarly standardize an electronically searchable format for federal legislation and congressional records.\

House Democrats on Thursday unveiled their new national security agenda, which will include gun control legislation and other domestic reforms…Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said the agenda will also include ‘common sense gun reform,’ including the ‘no fly, no buy’ provision that prohibits those on the no-fly list from buying firearms.

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“’My God, my God. We must come together as Americans, as a Congress, and find unity in action before this senseless violence tears us apart.’ The words are those of U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, tweeted out in the hours after five white police officers were gunned down protecting a group of mostly black protesters in downtown Dallas last week.”

WASHINGTON — Bay State U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan for not bringing gun control measures to a vote before lawmakers break today for a seven-week summer recess.

“What’s he going to say if there is another mass shooting between now and the end of recess?” Moulton told the Herald yesterday. “That’s worse than not doing his job, he’s totally shirking his responsibility to the American people.”