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The grief-stricken father of a Massachusetts soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan described his son Friday as a man proud of his military service.

While many Democrats have joined Republicans in public shaming of the Internal Revenue Service for singling out conservative groups, others say the scandal is just a byproduct of muddied rules about nonprofits and political activity in the wake of the Citizens United ruling - and they're hoping that they can steer the conversation from outrage over ... (more)

Ire over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting conservative groups. Anger over the Justice Department's snooping on The Associated Press.

On Saturday I wrote about how singer/song writer Carole King would be in Boston fundraising for Congressman Ed Markey who is up against businessman Gabriel Gomez in the special election on June 25th to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's seat in the U.S. Senate.

In this undated family photo, Roger Sabora-Martinez appears with his wife Yvette Martinez.

A joint House committee discussed the casino bill in the Legislative Office Building on Thursday afternoon, May 9, 2013.

A special House panel said Thursday it would want a bigger profit for New Hampshire if a casino is approved.

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen wrote in a Politico op-ed posted Sunday that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership economic treaty with Europe 'is a golden opportunity for America.' Paulsen and his co-author, U.S. Rep.

May 6, 2013 - NAFCU will advocate strongly for preservation of the credit union tax exemption as Congress begins to consider findings of the Joint Committee on Taxation, released today by the House Ways and Means Committee, summarizing work from 11 Ways and Means working groups on broad tax reform.

Competition from a Massachusetts casino in the Boston area would reduce New Hampshire revenue from slot machines by up to 45 percent, a House committee was told Tuesday.

The Housing Authority approved an additional $20,955 - $66,304 over the next three years - in funding for the Flood House at Monday's meeting, but the site's future is still uncertain.

The Fire Department will be purchasing 28 new air packs with the help of a $132,300 federal grant.

Competition from a Massachusetts casino in the Boston area would reduce New Hampshire revenue from slot machines by up to 45 percent, a House committee was told Tuesday.

"Roundup the usual suspects;" here we go again. No, it's not an unsolved murder in wartime Casablanca, simply the latest skirmish in the ongoing dispute over whether companies that write reinsurance in the U.S. market are using tax havens to avoid paying a fair share of the taxes they would otherwise owe on the premiums they earn.

As a teenager growing up in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, Edward Markey remembered hearing how John F. Kennedy was too Irish, too Catholic and too much a product of Boston politics to be elected president.

A new bipartisan tax bill is making its way through both chambers of Congress which, like the cigarette tax and the numerous Obamacare taxes, will cut across all income levels.

It was the sort of memorial service where even the guy in the back pew turns out to be retired U.S. Rep.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal will hold district office hours in seven communities in Berkshire and Franklin Counties this week to give local citizens an opportunity to share their concerns directly with a congressional staff member.