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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.”
By: Sri Ravipati\
Next week, the United States Congress is launching its second annual Congressional App Challenge. The competition is open to all high school students, even those without coding experience, in an effort to encourage students to learn to code by creating their own applications.
Two bills recently introduced in the House would make it easier for federal employees to use rideshare companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. At least one of the bills is a direct response to Metrorail’s SafeTrack program, which requires lengthy shutdowns of parts of the Washington, D.C., commuter rail system to fix safety problems.
Washington, D.C. – Last week, Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) and a group of bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’ investigative arm, requesting a review of federal and state oversight of sober homes. This follows a similar request from Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
By: Darlene Aderoju\
The contest was launched by the Congressional Internet Caucus, a bipartisan group of more than 100 members of the House and Senate, and is sponsored by the Internet Education Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes democracy through technology. It was first piloted in 2014, and Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Ed Royce (R-Calif.) will oversee the competition.