BOSTON – Opponents hit Beacon Hill Tuesday to rally against proposals that would mandate access to public bathrooms or changing rooms for individuals based on the gender of their choice, two weeks after the state Senate overwhelmingly passed a so-called bathroom bill and in anticipation of a vote as soon as Wednesday on a different version of the legislation in the House of Representatives.
Tuesday's rally, led by the conservative-leaning Massachusetts Family Institute, drew more than 100 demonstrators who heard from several speakers, including a 12-year-old middle school girl. They focused their remarks on protecting their rights to privacy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans gave an election-year airing to their complaints about Internal Revenue Service chief John Koskinen Tuesday, telling a GOP-run House committee that he should be impeached for lying to lawmakers and destroying evidence.
"Mr. Koskinen was sent to the IRS to clean it up but it's gotten worse," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told the House Judiciary Committee, pressing a long-shot effort he's led since last year to remove the agency's commissioner. "As members of Congress, we have no reason to have any confidence that Mr. Koskinen will run one of the most powerful agencies with any integrity."
