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Two Democratic congressmen have sent a letter to the White House requesting documents relating to efforts by senior White House officials -- including senior adviser Jared Kushner -- to secure a high-level position for a Chicago banker who lent $16 million to Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, the ranking member of the National Security Subcommittee, are asking for information related to Stephen Calk, the chief executive officer of the Federal Savings Bank.
17, 2018. Dozens of homes were destroyed ... . Residents stand in a block-long line outside a customer help center staffed by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts in Lawrence, Mass., Monday, Sept.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch speaks at the 2015 St. Patrick's Day Breakfast. Staff file photo by Faith Ninivaggi They've got some pretty big high heels to fill, but Congressman Stephen F. Lynch has announced he and Boston City Councilor-at-Large Michael Flaherty have agreed "to pinch hit" as co-hosts of next month's St. Patrick's Day Breakfast.
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, September 23, 2016 in New York City. New York State Attorney General Eric Scheiderman's office announced Friday that authorities in New York state have made a record drug bust, seizing 33 kilograms of heroin and 2 kilograms of fentanyl.
The proposed Republican health care bill released by Senate leadership this week will "kill Massachusetts" without addressing any of the real flaws in Obamacare, Congressman Stephen Lynch said yesterday. "The two plans I've seen so far, they don't reduce the cost of health care, unfortunately," Lynch said during an appearance on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" program, referring to the GOP plans passed by the House and proposed in the Senate.
New technologies are giving law enforcement in Minnesota and across the country broad access to data on criminals and everyday citizens alike. Here are some examples you may have heard about - and why they are controversial.
Comcast Corp. is facing more calls for information from Massachusetts elected officials who are concerned that the broadcast signal of its new NBC station in Boston won't reach some viewers. US Representatives Stephen Lynch and Joseph Kennedy III sent a letter to Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts Friday, asking whether people who do not subscribe to cable or satellite services and instead watch free television over the air will be unable to tune in to the new station next month.
Van Hollen served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives after 12 years in the Maryland General Assembly. He has called for improving education, expanding the economy, and election reform.
The bustling rail system connecting Boston and the Northeast Corridor is a "soft target" for terrorism that remains one of the most difficult to defend, say experts and officials who are now eyeing its vulnerabilities in the wake of the attacks that hit New York City and New Jersey over the weekend. "The rail system is a point of particular concern for us because you've got five times as many people traveling by rail than you do by air every single day," said U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, a South Boston Democrat, pointing in particular to South Station.
U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, right, speaks with a constituent at a Pleasant Hill, Calif., Rotary Club meeting last month in California's 11th District. Courtesy photo Mark DeSaulnier calls it his Jack Kerouac experience.
Rep. Stephen Lynch,D-Mass., recently disclosed that a congressional investigation has found at least 72 employees of the Department of Homeland Security listed on the U.S. terrorist watch list.