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Fact Check on Misleading Claims About Refugees
Claim #1: An arbitrary deadline that ignores the need for an enhanced screening process is in direct contravention to the House-passed SAFE Act (H.R. 4038), which passed with broad bipartisan support and a veto-proof margin in the House.
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The Fourth Annual Peter J. Gomes Service Award
The nomination period is now CLOSED for the fourth annual Peter J. Gomes Service Award and 2019 Day of Service. The Award Ceremony and Day of Service will be held in early September. At the event, the community will recognize a group of outstanding nominations, and the finalist for the Peter J. Gomes service award.
Details will be announced soon.
SALEM — School leaders have new allies in the fight to improve the district and pull it out of its state-assigned Level 4 status.
Officials from Salem Public Schools, along with Congressman Seth Moulton, came together with the Massachusetts Service Alliance, United Way and AmeriCorps Monday morning to launch a partnership that will bring service volunteers to help the city's English language learning (ELL) school population.
Speaks with service members and military leaders, receives an on-the-ground update on the fight against ISIS\
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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.\