WASHINGTON -- A Massachusetts freight rail line linking Vermont with Connecticut and its ocean ports received $10.8 million in federal money for upgrades this week.
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A pair of members of Congress from Massachusetts are set up well for the next couple years.
Congressman Richard Neal of Springfield is currently the top Democrat on the tax-writing Ways...
Rep. Richard Neal is more of a workhorse than a show horse. But as the one-time mayor of Springfield enters his 30th year in Congress, he is about to become one of...
With Democrats winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday's midterm elections, Western Massachusetts could soon yield major influence in federal policymaking.
The four...
The Republican Party that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker belongs to lost control of the U.S. House on Tuesday. But Baker does not sound unhappy.
The silver lining for the GOP governor is...
SPRINGFIELD -- A fundraising breakfast on Tuesday to support the YWCA's work serving victims of domestic violence had the aura of an Election Day campaign rally -- and that's what Elizabeth Dineen...
With Democrats taking control of the House after the midterm elections, a congressman from western Massachusetts is poised to be handed the gavel to the most powerful committee in the chamber....
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - After Tuesday's midterm elections, Congressman Richard Neal is in position to serve as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Democrats took control of the...
SPRINGFIELD — Saying his whole career led him for this moment, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal on Wednesday pledged that, under his leadership, a powerful House committee will fight to preserve the...