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Last week, a federal panel drafted a slew of conservation recommendations to help the imperiled and declining North Atlantic right whale population. Now Congress may enter the fray.
A House bill to create a decade-long, $50 million grant program to help protect the North Atlantic right whales was approved Wednesday by the National Resource Committee and is heading to a vote by the full House membership.
The HEADs Up Act would direct the Health Services and Resources Administration to designate people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) as a Medically Underserved Population. The HSRA is the government agency that advocates for people who are cut off from quality health care by economics, geography or a medical vulnerability.
In the five days since Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report dropped, stories about the Democrats’ escalating intra-party conflict have permeated the news media. Mueller’s findings, the narrative goes, have driven a wedge between the members of the party who are clamoring for an impeachment inquiry and the ones who view the matter largely as an unwelcome distraction from their kitchen-table agenda. The pundit class has been a fevered mess of speculation: Have the Democrats finally reached their breaking point?
Seth Moulton isn’t running for president — yet. But the Massachusetts congressman is joining a growing chorus of Democrats who believe that his party should try to beat President Trump in 2020 on national security.
Fentanyl Sanctions Act Targets Chinese-based Drug Makers
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressmen Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) introduced the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, bipartisan legislation to force China to stem the flow of deadly, synthetic opioids being trafficked into the United States.
Una crisis humanitaria en Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras está causando los retos en la frontera con México. Existe una solución obvia que ha funcionado antes: aumentar la ayuda para esta región para abordar las causas de la crisis.
A humanitarian crisis in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras is fueling America’s immigration challenges on the border with Mexico. There’s an obvious solution that has worked before: increase targeted aid to address the root causes of the crisis.
Bay State lawmakers will be in Lawrence on Monday to unveil pipeline safety legislation six months after gas-fueled explosions rocked the Merrimack Valley city and two neighboring towns.
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey and freshman U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan will be joined by local officials, state legislators and first responders, as well as the family of Leonel Rondon, the 18-year-old teenager who was killed when a house exploded and the chimney toppled onto the car he was in.
A class at a Waldorf school in the northeastern part of Massachusetts has urged Congress to the pass the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act.
Fifth graders at the Waldorf School at Moraine Farm in Beverly sent letters to Congressman Seth W. Moulton, representative of the Massachusetts Sixth District, urging that he support the bill and get it passed. The letters were accompanied by drawings.