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July 9, 2020

Harvard and MIT are now backed by Northeastern and other colleges from around the country to continue to push against the federal government’s effort to expel foreign students if their school is only offering online courses.

The colleges briefly started a hearing Thursday that will continue at more length 10 a.m. Friday in federal court in Boston.


July 9, 2020

Defense Secretary Mark Esper never received a briefing about alleged Russian practices against U.S. troops in Afghanistan that included the term “bounty,” he told Congress on Thursday.

Esper said so in an answer to a carefully worded question from Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, who appeared to be aware about how to cue Esper, potentially from the lawmaker’s own awareness of the still-secret underlying intelligence about the Russian allegations.

“To the best of my recollection, I have not received a briefing that included the word ‘bounty,’ ” Esper said.


July 9, 2020

PEORIA, Ariz. - A Peoria family hopes their son’s suicide in the Navy leads to some good for all men and women in uniform.

A bill now in Congress, the Brandon Act, looks to give service members more options for mental health.

Brandon Caserta wanted nothing more than to be a Navy SEAL, but unfortunately, a broken leg derailed his dream, and following a transfer in the Navy, things got much worse.

“He was bullied and hazed from the moment he got in that command. I think he was targeted because he did not make it through the SEAL program," said his mother Teri Caserta.


July 8, 2020

Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey along with Representatives Jim McGovern, Bill Keating, Katherine Clark, Seth Moulton, Lori Trahan, and Ayanna Pressley announced $520,494 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to support the reimbursement of personal protective equipment (PPE) at twenty Massachusetts fire departments.


July 6, 2020
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July 2, 2020

SALEM, Mass.— Today, Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) issued the following statement heading into the Independence Day weekend:

As we celebrate Independence Day, we must never forget that throughout history, through good times and bad, people always choose freedom and self-government over tyranny. We also know that the success of bold experiments in democracy, including our own, are far from guaranteed.


July 1, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, the House of Representatives will vote on HR 2, the Moving Forward Act. It includes a plan by Rep. Seth Moulton that will allow states to modernize the way RMV’s and DMV’s share data. The goal is to keep dangerous drivers off the road. HR 2 is expected to pass.


July 1, 2020

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.


July 1, 2020

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.


July 1, 2020

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.