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Bryan Davis, Vice President of Sole Choice, a shoelace manufacturer in Portsmouth, says last week's passage by the U.S. House of Representatives passage of H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, could, if passed, mean an increase in business and possibly the creation of more jobs at that plant.

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown told Fox 25 he could beat Congressman Ed Markey, who is currently running against Republican Gabriel Gomez in the June 25 special election for U.S. Senate.

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The Republican underdog fighting for Massachusetts' open U.S. Senate seat in a Tuesday debate attacked his rival, a veteran Democratic congressman, over recently revealed programs in which federal agencies track Americans' use of phones and the Internet.

Gabriel Gomez is trying to show that Scott Brown isn't the only Republican who can steal a Senate seat in a special election in liberal Massachusetts.

Next week's election to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated Senate seat looks like a win for U.S. Rep. Ed Markey.

Senate President Therese Murray on Monday said she had not yet made a decision on her political future, indicating that she is undecided on running for re-election in 2014 and declining to rule out a run for governor.

Donald Berwick, a former controversial figure in the Obama administration who served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said he will run for governor of Massachusetts next year.

Donald Berwick, a former controversial figure in the Obama administration who served as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said he will run for governor of Massachusetts next year.

GAMING OUT THE G8: The civil war in Syria is expected to dominate much of the discussion as President Obama sits down with the Group of Eight leaders in Northern Ireland today, just days after the White House confirmed the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, ABC's MARY BRUCE reports.

Republican Gabriel Gomez, left, shakes hands with Democratic Congressman Edward Markey at the end of the debate, June 11, 2013 in the studios of WGBY in Springfield, Mass.

Joyce Britt has attended the state's GOP Convention before, having gone to the event in 2012 when it was held in Greensboro.

For the first time in more than 20 years, the July 4 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will not be televised nationally.

U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel E. Gomez, campaigning up and down the state yesterday, said the high-profile visits by President Obama and former President Bill Clinton are examples of his opponent's insider status, something he'll target until election day on June 25. The GOP's Gomez - speaking to the Herald at the Semana Hispana festival in Lawrence ... (more)

Today's Real Clear Politics average of polls on the special Massachusetts senate election between Democratic nominee Edward Markey and Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez shows the Democrat leading by 9.3 percent.

Received two fundraising e-mails from two Senators I admire who are supporting Congressman Ed Markey's U.S. Senate bid.

A political action committee formed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has raised nearly $229,000 during the first six months of the year, records show.

Strong fundraising in April and May added to his $4.6 million cash balance on 4/11 helped Rep. Edward Markey far outspend Gabriel Gomez in the battle to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, now President Obama's Secretary of State.

National Journal's Josh Kraushaar notes that the Republican Party doesn't seem to have learned much from the 2012 election and, to the extent the problems it faces that led to what can only be seen as a defeat least year have been pointed out to them, they don't seem to be at all interested in implementing reforms.

Late June, with school having recently ended or soon to do so, and the Fourth of July little more than a week away, is not a time people are used to going to the polls to vote.