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North Shore Congressman Seth Moulton was one of only two Bay State House members to vote against overriding President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for damages suffered in the terrorist attack. (Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, was the other.)

Moulton acknowledges it was a politically difficult vote, but noted that many of those who supported the override — the first time that’s happened to Obama — are now having second thoughts.

ESSEX — There are days when Harbormaster Peter Silva can’t get the town’s largest rescue boat off the dock at the Town Landing because there isn’t enough water at low tide in that stretch of the Essex River.

Those low-tide blues force Silva to Plan B, where he might have to opt for the 15-foot Whaler, or even haul the bigger 23-foot boat to another point on the river where it could be launched.

When it comes to economic development in the region and across Massachusetts, transportation is fundamental, according to Congressman Seth Moulton.

“At the district level, our number one priority is economic development,” Moulton said. “Transportation typically inspires development.”

Last Wednesday, Congress voted 445-78 to override a presidential veto of a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged involvement in the terror attacks.

Speaking before a Town Hall meeting in Fort Lee, Virginia that same day, President Obama called the override a "mistake" and a "political vote," and said he wished that "Congress here had done what's hard."