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September 16, 2020

WASHINGTON – Rep. Seth Moulton joined Reps. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) in filing a concurrent resolution calling for the creation of a national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The resolution is the result of almost a year of coordination with expert stakeholders and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). The resolution includes recommendations from four white papers the congressmen created with BPC on Workforce, National Security, Research and Development (R&D) and Ethics.


September 15, 2020

SALEM, MA – Today, House Armed Services Committee Members Seth Moulton (MA-06), Lori Trahan (MA-03), and Jackie Speier (CA-14), along with 22 of their colleagues, sent a letter to House and Senate Armed Service Committee leaders requesting that they retain critical mental health and suicide prevention provisions in the final NDAA agr


September 11, 2020

SALEM, Mass. — Today, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) invited the public to nominate people in their lives who best exemplify the qualities of integrity, compassion, and commitment to community, which were the foundational principles of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes’ teachings.


September 10, 2020

SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - Two Gold Star families in Salem are speaking out against remarks President Trump allegedly made about veterans and those serving in the military.

The controversial remarks prompted Congressman Seth Moulton to reach out to these families.

Moulton served four tours in Iraq and is a U.S. Marine.


The families told 7NEWS the remarks, if true, are an insult to their fallen children.


September 10, 2020
Updates

In 2016, Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) established the Peter J. Gomes Service Award, to be given annually to the individual in the Sixth District who best epitomizes the qualities of integrity, compassion, and commitment to community that were the foundation of the late Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes’ teachings.

Reverend Gomes was Seth’s mentor and friend. One of his core teachings is embodied by this quote from his writing:


September 9, 2020

SALEM, Mass.Following the announcement by the commander of U.S. Central Command that the United States will be reducing troops in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 by the end of September, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued the following statement:

No one wants to bring U.S. troops home more than veterans who have experienced the true cost of war, but we need to make sure they can come home for good. Our troops in Iraq are not twiddling their thumbs; they work hard every day to prevent a second rise of ISIS and prepare Iraqi forces to take over.


September 9, 2020

The Trump administration will cut the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 3,000 this month, a top military commander said in the country on Wednesday, a reduction from about 5,200 there now.

The move is part of President Trump’s effort to reduce the American military footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan before Election Day on Nov. 3, officials have said. The top U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. Frank McKenzie, said improvements in Iraq’s security forces allowed the U.S. to downsize.


September 4, 2020

Prominent veterans Friday called out President Trump’s “contempt” for the military, as Trump denied reports that he has repeatedly disparaged service members captured or killed in action.

The reports say Trump canceled a visit to a French cemetery for American servicemen killed in World War I, describing the graveyard as “filled with losers,” and complained after Senator John McCain’s death that flags had been lowered for the “loser” who spent five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.


August 20, 2020

Salem, MA – Today, Representative Seth Moulton announced the Salem and Burlington fire departments will receive equipment grants totaling $173,222.72 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 


August 19, 2020

WILMINGTON, Mass.Rep. Seth Moulton announced today that the US Environmental Protection Agency has put forward a plan to clean up the Olin Chemical Superfund Site in Wilmington. The announcement follows an April release, citing that the Superfund site was on the Administrator’s Emphasis List, which captures the top of the EPA’s to-do list.