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Briefings: Markey and McGovern Meet Khalil Again, This Time, Far from a Prison…

Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil came to Capitol Hill to lobby on behalf of Palestinians. Of course, the context of Khalil’s visit was not just the war in Gaza he had opposed as a student. Donald Trump and cronies had imprisoned Khalil, a lawful permanent resident with US citizen family, for his activism at Columbia after the war broke out. Among those Khalil met were members of the 413’s delegation including Senator Ed Markey and 2nd Massachusetts District Rep James McGovern.

Briefings: The 413’s Reps Blast Big & Beautiful “Greed, Corruption & Tax Breaks” in GOP Bill…

Republicans in the United State House of Representatives jammed through their budget and spending bill this week. Given their rank in the Democratic caucus, both reps for Western Massachusetts featured prominently in the debate.

Briefings: Neal’s Committee Squad Set; McGovern Waits for Other Team’s Captain Pick…

UPDATED 1/8/25 8:14PM: To include confirmation of Boyle’s status on another committee and to note Democratic assignments for subcommittees. As the 119th Congress and its House of Representatives settles in, the latter’s committees are beginning to take shape. Neither party changed leaders on the Committee.

Briefings: Neal, Ways & Means Colleagues Mourn Pascrell As His Passing Shakes up Committee…

With less than four months until this Congress expires and two months before voters choose who will rule the next one, Democrats are reorganizing their side of the House Ways & Means Committee. This comes after the passing of a long-serving member, New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell.

Briefings: Cast Changes Break up Rules Committee’s Odd Couple after 2 1/2 Congresses…

A rare mid-Congress shakeup has changed the committee counterpart of one of the 413’s congressmen. At the tail end of Tuesday’s Rules Committee meeting, Ranking Member James McGovern, a Worcester Democrat who represents Amherst, Greenfield and Northampton, bid farewell to Chairman Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican.

Briefings: McGovern & Neal Join Most Dems, Many GOP to Expel Wacky Crook…

For only the sixth time in the Republic’s history, the United States House of Representatives has expelled one of its own members. George Santos, the fabulist fraudster from New York, was voted out of the Capitol 311-114.

Briefings: Ways & Means (and Neal) Back on the Impeachment Treadmill…

With attempts to tie President Joe Biden to his prodigal son sputtering, the Republican US House of Representatives is upgrading its investigation to an impeachment inquiry. Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he was formally charging committees with commencing a probe

The 413’s Top House Dems Reorganized into Committee Minority…

Some weeks after the drama of the election for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Republican-controlled body has begun organizing committees. That includes the two panels Western Massachusetts’s reps once chaired.

Briefings: Richie’s New Buddy on Ways & Means Is Revealed…

Now that Republicans in the House of Representatives has elected a speaker—finally—the GOP could fill its open committee chairs. A House Republican panel selected Missouri Congressman Jason Smith, formerly the top Republican on the Budget committee, to chair Ways & Means

Some History Class: In Last Speaker Stalemate, a Springfield Rep Battled for His Gavel…

The last public battle for House Speaker has an additional salience to Western Massachusetts. The speaker seeking reelection was Frederick Gillett, the congressman for the Greater Springfield area at the time.

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