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DUIs, domestic incidents, arrests, police brutality, even murder plots -- members of Congress spent much of a Tuesday hearing detailing horror stories of VA police misconduct.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., told Department of Veterans Affairs leadership about a veteran who, while recovering from spinal surgery, was allegedly tackled to the ground by VA police and handcuffed. When he asked for a police report from the incident, he received a summons in the mail to appear in federal court on criminal charges.
After the death of two local high-powered academics in Florida last month, a pair of local congressmen have introduced a measure to address safety concerns in vehicles with keyless ignition.
The legislation, introduced by Democratic Massachusetts congressmen Joe Kennedy III of Newton and Seth Moulton of Salem, comes after the deaths of Sherry H. Penney, 81, the former interim president of the University of Massachusetts, and James Livingston, 88, a retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Democratic presidential candidate Seth Moulton on Sunday pledged to do “whatever I can” to ban all assault weapons and high-capacity magazines if he’s elected next year, calling gun violence a “national emergency” in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia.
The Massachusetts congressman from Salem, who served in Iraq, said “weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools.”
Robert Mueller volunteered to serve his country in Vietnam and under the administrations of Republicans and Democrats. He is an American patriot.
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran who is running for president, will introduce a plan Tuesday evening to expand military mental health services and will disclose that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after his combat deployments during the Iraq War.
There was a time when many Americans approached Memorial Day weekend with some degree of dread, knowing it would bring back painful memories of loved ones lost.
Today, most of us look forward to this long weekend with excitement — we celebrate the unofficial start of summer.
A powerful congressional committee holds a hearing on single-payer health care.
It sounds like the perfect place for lawmakers looking to score easy political points and cut new sound bites for one of the nation’s biggest policy debates. Right?
Not if you’re talking about Wednesday’s hearing in the House Budget Committee. Members from both political parties questioned Congressional Budget Office officials in a quest for new ammunition in a health care fight that has already lit up the 2020 campaign trail.
As President Trump demonstrated Wednesday, he might be the focus of endless congressional investigations, but when it comes to the question of impeachment he holds all the cards. At least for now.
Impeachment was the talk of Washington Wednesday, as Democrats huddled to discuss whether — and how — to proceed.
Some members of the Massachusetts delegation are leading the calls for President Trump's ouster. They include Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Seth Moulton — both presidential candidates.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been preaching restraint, without taking impeachment off the table.