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Carlos Cianflone played with son Luca, 4, in Malden. His wife, Kelly, says 40 of their friends or neighbors are fearful over the worker petitions.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center received another spark last week to power its research in marine energy in the form of a direct appropriation from the federal government.

Ronald Weich, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs today announced two new members of the Office's leadership team.

The Cape is going to receive more than $2 million in federal stimulus money for nonprofit community health centers and an environmental project in Brewster, according to U.S. Rep.

On Saturday, approximately 130 people packed into the historic Italian Club in Ybor City to hear a day-long discussion on improving Tampaa s trade and travel relations with Cuba.

Being "in transit" is being neither here nor there, so the Cape Cod Transit Task Force, dormant for several years, re-energized itself at a two-plus-hour "reunion" last week to continue "being" here guiding the Cape's public transportation infrastructure into the techno-future of electronic git-go. Bolstered by a review of what the task force ...

Submitted by .Sean on June 28, 2009 - 11:58am On Thursday of last week, NJ GOP Gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie was called to testify before Congress about his practice of awarding no-bid contracts when he was US Attorney in New Jersey.

With its white clapboard walls, sloping lawns and broad porches, the famed Kennedy family compound on Cape Cod boasts commanding views of Nantucket Sound's shimmering waters.

Tampa has much to gain if trade and travel with Cuba are opened. So said several speakers Saturday at an Ybor City seminar at the Italian Club, where about 120 business and political leaders gathered to discuss the issue.

There is broad agreement in Congress that government regulators failed to protect Americans from subprime mortgages and other risky credit products.

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services recently held a hearing to review "Regulatory Restructuring: Enhancing Consumer Financial Products Regulation." The committee, chaired by Rep.

Two Massachusetts elected officials testified in Washington Wednesday in favor of more oversight of financial services companies, the Cape Cod Times reports.

Congressional Democrats today blasted New Jersey's former top federal prosecutor, Chris Christie, for choosing a firm headed by his one-time boss, John Ashcroft, to monitor a company accused of corporate crime.

Two Massachusetts political figures were in Washington, D.C., yesterday to testify before a congressional committee considering changes in the way consumer financial products are regulated.

Delahunt, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said that reform of the American justice system should begin with a broad look at drug policy.

Senate Debating Companion Legislation to Add $4 Billion in Economic Stimulus, Reduce Federal Budget Deficit by $425 Billion The U.S. Travel Association today praised Representatives William Delahunt and Roy Blunt for introducing the "Travel Promotion Act of 2009" - much-needed legislation to create thousands of new jobs and boost economic growth ...

Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. , issued the following news release: Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt joined Congressman Bill Delahunt to introduce the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, H.R. 2935, legislation aimed at enhancing America's status as a first-rate tourist destination, and reversing what has become a long-term decline in travel to the United States.

The Travel Promotion Act, S. 1023, moved to the Senate floor for debate and is expected to come up for a vote within days, perhaps as early as Friday.

Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., wants to interview the former Guantanamo Bay detainees who have settled in Bermuda.

U.S. lawmakers have heard testimony about continuing weaknesses in U.S.-government funded television broadcasting to Cuba.