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Massachusetts House Passes Abortion Expansion Bill, 109-49; One Republican Votes Yes
By Chris Van Buskirk State House News Service
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Nevertheless, He Persisted
Some people are saving the Sunday, November 8, 2020 New York Times with the banner "Biden Beats Trump" headline. The one I am thinking of framing and putting up on the wall, though, is the front page of the Thursday, February 27, 2020 Times. That is the one
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More Than 300 Pastors Sign Onto Letter To Charlie Baker Urging Him To Reject Latest Version of ROE Act Abortion Bill
More than 300 Massachusetts pastors have signed a letter addressed to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker voicing their opposition to a version of the ROE Act featured in the state's budget bill. Instead of the ROE Act (S.1209/H.3320), it is now "Amendment #759 to H5150:
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Congressman-Elect Jake Auchincloss: We Want Mass Low-Skill Immigration, Too
What does Massachusetts congressman-elect Jake Auchincloss think about immigration? The Newton city councilor recently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts's Fourth Congressional District is a fan.
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Abortion Expansion Bill Likely To Get Massachusetts House Vote This Week
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is green-lighting an amendment to the state budget bill that would expand late-term abortions and either lower the age requiring parental consent for abortion or eliminate it altogether. Current language in the bill is murky on whether a doctor who performs an abortion would still
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Republican Attorneys General Association Challenging Some Votes In Pennsylvania
A group of 10 state attorneys general has filed a friend-of-the-court brief seeking to get the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision to allow mail-in ballots to be counted in the state when received three days after the election, even if they are
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Don’t Expect Elizabeth Warren In A Joe Biden Administration, Political Scientists Say
It appears as though U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to be a part of a Joe Biden administration. The Massachusetts Democrat previously indicated that she would accept the vice-presidential nomination if selected, and late last month a Politico report said that Warren wanted to be named Secretary of the
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Is New Hampshire Still A Swing State? Political Scientists Weigh In
For the second straight election, President Donald Trump didn't win New Hampshire. Trump lost the state by fewer than 3,000 votes in 2016, in part because nearly 4,500 people wrote in Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. This time around, however, Trump received 45.6 percent of the
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