M. Speaker - On October 2nd, while Congress was campaigning, the Pentagon registered the 2,000th fatality in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. Today, that number has risen to 2,026.
It is imperative that we all remember the terrible human price that has been paid, is being paid, and will continue to be paid by our troops in Afghanistan and their families.
This… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown today announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded $151, 460 to the City of Worcester. Read more »
15 Members of Congress, speaking for five minutes each, focus the debate on the Defense Appropriations Act on the costs of the war in Afghanistan and the need to bring the troops home now. Read more »
Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, along with Congressmen Edward Markey, Niki Tsongas, John Tierney, John Olver, Richard Neal, Jim McGovern, Michael Capuano, Stephen Lynch, and William Keating, today urged the Pentagon to maintain the 3-s Read more »
Rep. Bill Keating has spearheaded a letter to the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, in a continued effort to save over 100 jobs at Otis Air National Guard Base (Otis). The letter, which was sent on Friday evening, was signed onto by the entire Massachu Read more »
87 House Members Commend Early Combat Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Washington, D.C. . . . Eighty seven Members of Congress, including nine Republicans, sent a letter today to President Obama praising the administration's decision to bring home all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2013.
On February 1, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the United States… Read more »
AFGHANISTAN: AMERICA NEEDS THE TRUTH
M. Speaker, Congress and the American people need to hear the truth about Afghanistan. It is impossible for us to make thoughtful, rational decisions on policy if we do not receive straight accurate information about the situation on the ground. And we have no right to keep our brave servicemen and women in harm's way, day after day, week… Read more »
