WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions released the following testimony by William A. Sussman, a doctoral student in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from a July 9, 2024, hearing entitled "Confronting Union Antisemitism: Protecting Workers From Big Labor Abuses": * * * Chairman Good, Ranking Member DeSaulnier, and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is William A. Sussman. I am a doctoral  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston (July 16, 2024) Senator Edward J. Markey, member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Congressman Bill Keating (MA-09), and Governor Maura Healey today celebrated the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarding the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and Army Corps of Engineers a $993 million grant for th  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Massachusetts' U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey, Senate co-chairs of the Congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, expressed their concern about companies seeking to build commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in the United States. The Senators urge U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Chri  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Richard E. Neal joined State Representative and Interim Town Manager Smitty Pignatelli to announce a $750,000 earmark for the Lenox Town Hall Restoration Project. The allocation was made possible through Congressionally Direct Spending (CDS) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Congressman Neal included funding for this project in the Fiscal Year 2023 spending bi  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), wrote to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo urging the Commerce Department (Commerce) to strengthen its new rule on firearms license requirements and prevent U.S. weapons exports from contributing to violence and brutal killings across the globe. "We applaud and appreciate the recent steps taken to amend the Departme  more