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Massachusetts members of Congress call for gun law reform after Texas shooting By: Katie Lannan Members of Congress from Massachusetts are calling for federal action to overhaul gun laws in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Texas outlet mall over the weekend. A gunman authorities identified as Mauricio Garcia killed eight people and wounded seven others in Allen, Texas on… Read more »

 Lori Trahan celebrates service academy nominees By: Melanie Gilbert LOWELL — Each June, U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan’s office begins the process of accepting, vetting and nominating 10 applicants each to four of the nation’s five U.S. service academies — West Point, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and the Merchant Marine Academy. Monday night, Trahan recognized the 24… Read more »

Lawmakers eye response as data brokers target ‘rural everlasting’ and ‘married sophisticates’ By: Gopal Ratnam In the absence of a federal data privacy law and despite multiple state privacy regulations, the multibillion-dollar data broker industry is collecting and selling extensive personal data on Americans, including physical and mental health information on the elderly, veterans… Read more »

Massachusetts lawmakers guarantee access to reproductive health care, medicine abortions By: Kinga Borondy  BOSTON - The state's political muscle was on display on the steps of the Statehouse Monday when many lawmakers gathered to affirm a woman’s right to access safe, legal and available health care, including medication abortions. Gov. Mau hand-picked and extremist judges in… Read more »

Lori Trahan, Making Opportunity Count celebrate nearly $6 million in federal funding By: Shane Rhodes FITCHBURG — The city’s youngest students — and their parents — just received a significant boost courtesy of U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan. On Tuesday, Trahan, joined by state Sen. John Cronin, state Rep. Michael Kushmerek, Mayor Stephen DiNatale and several Making Opportunity Count leaders,… Read more »

SEIU Local 888 welcomes Lori Trahan to Lowell Day Nursery By: Melanie Gilbert LOWELL — The dozen toddlers in the Blue Room at Lowell Day Nursery didn’t even look up when U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan entered their classroom. They were focused on a morning painting project. But when she knelt down and cooed over their artistic skills, she had their undivided attention, with one ready to hand… Read more »

Lori Trahan secures $2.77M for Afghan refugee work By: Melanie Gilbert  LOWELL — Over the past two years, almost 500 Afghan asylum seekers have settled in Lowell. They joined a diverse community of refugees including Cambodian, Haitian, Ukrainian and others who fled their homelands due to war, persecution or human rights abuses, and the Lowell Community Health Center has been… Read more »

Lawmakers seek more federal money for Merrimack River pollution By: Christian M .Wade BOSTON — Congressional lawmakers are calling for more federal funding to fix aging outfalls that spew sewage into the Merrimack River and other waterways. In a letter to legislative budget writers, Massachusetts Reps. Lori Trahan and Seth Moulton joined New Hampshire Reps. Chris Pappas and Ann Kuster… Read more »

Congressional hearing highlights challenges of NCAA's strategy of pursuing federal NIL legislation By: Steve Berkowitz  WASHINGTON – For the first time since Republicans gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 elections, a panel of lawmakers on Wednesday turned its attention to the NCAA’s ongoing issues in dealing with college athletes making money from… Read more »

Dem Lawmaker Slams Republican Who Sent Christmas Cards Holding AR-15 After Nashville School Shooting During House Floor remarks on Wednesday, Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) spoke about gun violence and slammed Republicans, such as Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who have posed with an AR-15 for a Christmas card. Read more »