hearings

GOP

Dems try to halt House GOP fetal tissue hearings

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats suggested on Wednesday that a special House panel investigating Planned Parenthood could be complicit in future assaults or even murders of abortion providers at the Republican-led committee's first hearing on the ethics of fetal tissue research. The investigative panel was created last year following

Massachusetts

Budget hearings will take lawmakers around Mass. in February

Gov. Charlie Baker's $39.55 billion budget proposal was filed Wednesday and a hearing schedule on the spending plan emerged late Friday. It will take lawmakers From Boston to Amherst, Methuen, Springfield, Medford, and Everett and back to Boston again. Hearings begin Tuesday at the State House where