As the nation paused to remember the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts' elected officials paid tribute to the fallen...
Roll Call: Top Democrats ready emergency child care cash infusion
A group of Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., are planning on introducing legislation this week that would provide $16 billion in funding for child...
Boston Herald: Massachusetts labor movement reflects on a year of fights, wins: ‘Every day is Labor Day’
Unions in Massachusetts and across the nation have seen a rare coalescence of spiking public and political support, labor leaders reflected at Boston's annual Labor Day Breakfast on Monday,...
The Maui News: FEMA funding in the balance as Maui contends with fire’s aftermath
With Maui desperately in need of federal aid as residents struggle to recover from the Aug. 8 wildfires, the government shutting down and the Federal Emergency Management Agency running out of...
WBUR: Mass. politicians slam Trump after latest indictment: ‘He will never, ever change’
It didn't take long after special counsel Jack Smith announced former President Trump's third indictment for members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to have their...
New Boston Post: ‘The Extremists Are Holding The American People Hostage,’ Katherine Clark Says
U.S. Representative Katherine Clark bashed Republicans in Congress earlier this week for refusing to bend on adding spending appropriations for abortion and transgender surgeries in a national...
ABC: Congress leaves for August recess with little movement on appropriations bills
The government funding fight continues under the threat of a looming shutdown as both chambers left town for August recess.The House left town Thursday after only passing one of 12 appropriation...
NYT: Divided Over Money and Policy, House G.O.P. Punts on Spending Bill
House Republicans abandoned efforts to pass a spending bill to fund the Agriculture Department and the F.D.A. on Thursday before heading home for summer break, stymied by internal divisions over...
Roll Call: House passes Military Construction-VA bill, cancels Friday votes
The House passed its first fiscal 2024 spending bill Thursday, funding veterans benefits and military construction projects, by a razor-thin margin along party lines that signaled a troubled road...
TIME: Shutdown Threat Intensifies as Congress Leaves Without Resolving Spending Fights
House Republican leaders on Thursday postponed votes for a must-pass government funding bill and dismissed lawmakers to start a six-week recess, raising the risk of a government shutdown in...
GBH: Massachusetts gets $58 million to get the lead out of schools
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark were in Boston Monday to announce $58 million in funding to replace lead pipes in Massachusetts' schools and childcare facilities.Lead...
Politico: The House just passed a defense bill with controversial abortion, LGBTQ measures. It doesn’t stand a chance in the Senate.
House Republicans united to narrowly pass major defense policy legislation on Friday that restricts the Pentagon policies on abortion access, medical care for transgender troops and diversity in a...
CBS: Defense bill’s passage threatened by abortion amendment, limits on Ukraine funding
The House adopted a controversial amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would ban the Pentagon from covering travel expenses for service members seeking abortions,...
Malden Advocate: Whip Clark Celebrates Disability Pride Month, Federal Investment in Special Education Services
Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) recognized Disability Pride Month with a tour of Perkins School for the Blind's Watertown Campus. Alongside students and faculty members, Whip Clark discussed...
NYT: House to Vote on Abortion Access for Military, Bowing to the Far Right
The House is set to vote on Thursday on whether to limit abortion access, bar transgender services and end diversity training for military personnel, part of a series of major changes that...
The Hill: Top House Democrats vow ‘no’ votes on defense bill
The top three Democrats in the House announced late Thursday night that they will vote against the annual defense bill, signaling that a large chunk of the Democratic Caucus will oppose the...
CNN: House adopts controversial amendments as defense bill passage hangs in the balance
The House voted Thursday evening to adopt several controversial amendments pushed by conservative hardliners to a critical national defense bill as the fate of the must-pass legislation...
NYT: Defense Bill’s Fate Teeters After G.O.P. Wedges In Social Issues
The fate of the annual defense bill was in doubt on Friday, after Republicans loaded the legislation with a raft of conservative social policy restrictions limiting access to abortions, gender...
Patch: Barnstable County Sheriff Supports New Call For Assault Weapons Ban
Law enforcement officials from Massachusetts were joined by others across the country in adding their names to a new call for an assault weapons ban.Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley was one...
Courier-Journal: As UPS-Teamsters impasse continues, what politicians are saying
With negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters halted, the union is poised to begin the largest single-employer strike in American history Aug. 1.Both UPS and the Teamsters say the other group...