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A bill that’s intended to keep dangerous drivers off the road and prevent horrific car crashes — like the New Hampshire wreck last year in which seven people died — moved forward on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton’s legislation for all RMVs in the country to be immediately alerted whenever a driver has an infraction was included in the Moving Forward Act, which the House of Representatives passed 233-188.

NORFOLK, Va. — After two years of fighting the Navy for accountability and pushing for change, finally, Teri and Patrick Caserta have a little hope.

Last week, on the two-year anniversary of their son Brandon's death, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) introduced "The Brandon Act."

The goal: to create a pathway for service members to seek mental health care in confidence, outside of their own chain of command.

WASHINGTON: “I’ll probably burn in hell for doing this repeatedly,” said Rep. Paul Cook, a retired Marine Corps colonel.

“This” is the annual rush to use every dollar in your Operations & Maintenance budget before the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. While other “colors of money,” such as procurement, don’t expire as fast – a weapons program can take years to get on contract – O&M is “one-year money.” If you don’t spend it by the end of the fiscal year, you lose it.

House Democrats expect to address the intelligence showing Russia offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops — as well as President Trump’s handling of the issue — when they consider the annual defense policy bill Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton on Tuesday continued to press NOAA Fisheries to reverse its decision to return at-sea monitors aboard commercial fishing vessels as the pandemic still rages, saying the agency "is sailing right into a hurricane" of its own making.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is delaying its requirement for several hundred Atlantic groundfish and scallop vessels to carry at-sea monitors and fishery observers for another month due to COVID-19-related concerns.

If you think Capitol Hill has been desolate this summer, try talking to the interns who never made it there.

“It was kind of a bummer,” Matthew Mittelstaedt says. He’s an economics major at the University of Dayton with an eye on law school. For the rising senior, a summer in Washington looked like a bouncy springboard into his post-grad career.

That was until mid-March, when things changed. His school’s program, DC Flyers, got grounded due to the uncertainty of the pandemic.