The United States has been at war in Afghanistan since October 7, 2001. U.S. Representative Seth Moulton is not among those who want to bring it to a close.
Moulton, a liberal Democrat from Salem who represents Massachusetts's Sixth Congressional District north of Boston, is a veteran of the War on Terror. The former U.S. Marine did four tours in Iraq despite not agreeing with the war, according to his web site.
A Republican congressman has introduced a resolution calling for the Democratic Party to change its name "or be barred from participation in the House of Representatives" because of its past support for slavery, the Confederacy, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jim Crow laws denying blacks civil rights.
U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced the measure "Raising a question of the privileges of the House" in response to House Democrats' actions against portraits and statues in the U.S. Capitol that portray men who took the Confederate side during the Civil War.
