by Sam Dallaire | Dec 8, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
WHDH-TV By Byron Barnett The Army said it found failures in its leadership at that Texas base and Fernandes’s family says they are thankful something is finally being done. “It still hits home really, really hard,” said his aunt Isabel Fernandes. She says that hearing...
by Sam Dallaire | Nov 17, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
Washington, D.C. — This week, U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a hearing to examine how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) are working to address the health...
by Sam Dallaire | Oct 15, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates
WBUR/Dorchester Repoter By Shannon Dooling, WBUR Reporter Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is asking US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more information about an incident last Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 6) involving a Black man who...
by Sam Dallaire | Oct 5, 2020 | National Security, News & Updates, Protecting Our Environment
Worcester Business Journal By State House News Service Investigators still have not determined what triggered an automatic shutdown and natural gas release at the Weymouth compressor station on Wednesday, and Congressman Stephen Lynch said the Federal Bureau of...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 24, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
Brockton Enterprise & Patriot Ledger By Cody Shepard A congressional delegation, including three representatives from Massachusetts, traveled to the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood base in Texas last weekend to investigate an “alarming number” of deaths at the base this...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 24, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
WBUR By Quincy Walters Massachusetts Congressional lawmakers are still pushing for answers, and reform, at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas after the death of a Brockton soldier who was stationed there. In August, Sgt. Elder Fernandes was found dead, hanging from...
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