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July 22, 2019

If you look at the 457 miles of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail lines, you’d see what looks like uninterrupted service up and down the East Coast. The Acela Express line runs from Boston down through New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C., while the Downeaster line connects Boston to northern reaches of New England, through New Hampshire and up to Portland and Brunswick, Maine.


July 22, 2019

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing was Saturday. Those who witnessed the event might wax nostalgic for a day when Americans came together to support a swashbuckling adventure among the stars.

Today, many look back on the moon landing as the greatest single human accomplishment of the 20th century. This moment is particularly meaningful to Floridians, where the eight-day mission in 1969 had its beginning.


July 22, 2019
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The Challenge

The Office of Congressman Seth Moulton is proud to host the 2019 Sixth District Congressional App Challenge (CAC), a competition designed to encourage student participation in computer science and coding, will be hosting our annual coding competition this year. Students are encouraged to register online by Sept 10th before submitting their app by November 1st.


July 16, 2019

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a long shot candidate for the 2020 Democratic primary, blamed failed House Democratic leadership for the escalation of a public feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the four progressive freshman lawmakers known as “the Squad.”

Moulton, in an interview with HuffPost on Monday, reiterated his campaign trail refrain blasting Pelosi and her lieutenants for failing to initiate an impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump.


July 16, 2019

Lights for Liberty in Salem was staged on the heels of reports of inadequate food, water and sanction or neglect of migrant children at a United States Custom and Border Control facility in El Paso, Texas and dentition camp in Homestead, Fla.

“No human being can ever be illegal,” declared Salem resident and activist Scot Sternberg before hundreds of people seated and standing in the First Church of Salem on Friday night.


July 16, 2019

The Golden Gate in San Francisco. The Brooklyn in New York. Even the Zakim in Boston.

The United States builds bridges, not walls.

People from around the region gathered in Salem Friday night to emphasize the point, speaking out to defend undocumented immigrants and demand an end to the humane treatment of immigrants now in federal detention camps and centers across the United States.


July 16, 2019

Attacks on ICE agents are getting personal, with a Newburyport shop owner and her husband the latest victims of blowback from “radical haters” blaming federal employees for the crisis at the southern border.

The rattled shop owner said she found a sign hanging over a bridge next to her business Saturday morning that called her and her husband out for being “a danger to our community.” He works for the Department of Homeland Security, and she’s an immigrant from Ireland.


July 16, 2019

MARBLEHEAD — “Holocaust = Fake News,” blared the headline of a flyer found attached to the welcome sign at Temple Emanu-El on Monday morning.

A second anti-Semitic flyer was later found out back, leaving the community disturbed and saddened.

“It wasn’t just a random bit of graffiti. ... Somebody really made the effort to come down and send us a message,” said Rabbi David Meyer, who called police and notified the Anti-Defamation League.


July 15, 2019

ACTION for National Service Act would incrementally expand the number of full-time federal service positions

Rep. Seth Moulton has filed an ambitious piece of legislation that would revamp and overhaul national service in the United States.

Under Moulton’s plan, the proposed law — ACTION for National Service Act — would incrementally expand the number of full-time federal service positions under AmeriCorps, the nation’s signature civilian service program, to 1 million over the next decade.


July 12, 2019

Veterans groups are hailing a move by the House of Representatives that would require President Donald Trump to get Congress' permission before attacking Iran.

In a 251-170 vote, the House passed an amendment to the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that would stop Trump from using federal funding for military operations against Iran without a declaration from war or a new authorization for military force from Congress.