All six Massachusetts congressmen who voted yesterday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a defense bill that would limit troop withdrawals from the Middle East take campaign donations from corporate political action committees, while the state's three congressmen who voted against the override don't.
All nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts are Democrats who oppose President Trump and frequently criticize him. But the bill divided them into taking pro-Trump and anti-Trump sides, at least for that moment.
Some Democrats opposed it, virtually every Republican opposed it, but an abortion expansion bill (H.5179) will be the law of the land in Massachusetts.
Without any debate or statements on the bill, the Massachusetts Senate voted 32-8 on Tuesday afternoon to override the veto of the state's Republican governor, Charlie Baker, who vetoed the bill on Christmas Eve.
