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"E-Updates" are periodic e-mail updates from my office regarding issues of the day, notable announcements and important district developments. They are a great way for constituents to keep up-to-date on my work in Massachusetts and on Capitol Hill, and stay informed about the legislation and issues that affect the district.

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• December 9, 2010
  Tax cuts update
• December 7, 2010
  Special e-Update on the Tax Proposal
• December 3, 2010
  Tax cuts; Lcpl. Alexander Arredondo; Sudan; Child Nutrition; Ethics
• November 19, 2010
  Unemployment; Caucus rules; District work period
• November 5, 2010
  Letter from Mike looking ahead to the next session of Congress
• October 29, 2010
  Forsythe Institute; Benjamin Franklin Institue of Technology; Central Boston Elder Services
• October 22, 2010
  Social Security privatization; Social Security COLA; TARP (Bank Bailout) update
• October 15, 2010
  Craigie Drawbridge; Volpe Center; Chinatown coalition
• October 8, 2010
  Stimulus at work again; Chelsea Choice Thru Education; Help with mortgages
• October 4, 2010
  Middle Class Tax Cuts; Sudan; H.R. 3081 to fund government agencies
• September 24, 2010
  Fair elections; Sudan; Stimulus funds at work in the community; Small business
• September 20, 2010
  A note from Mike about the debate over extending the Bush tax cuts that are due to expire
• July 30, 2010
  Unemployment; Shareholder protection; Supplemental Appropriations; FY2011 Appropriations; Capitol Security Subcommittee; Teen Driver Safety
• July 2, 2010
  Wall Street reform; Homebuyer assistance; Unemployment; Supplemental Appropriations bill; Health Care reform
• June 25, 2010
  DISCLOSE Act; Gen. McChrystal; Rights violations in Honduras; Project Place Partners-at-Work Awards
• June 18, 2010
  East Boston check-in; Small business lending legislation; Oil spill; Sudan
• June 11, 2010
  Federal Housing Authority reforms; Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; Financial regulatory reform
• June 4, 2010
  Upcoming telephone community meeting; Baggage Fee Fairness Act; Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Tax extenders
• May 21, 2010
  DISCLOSE Act; Shaw's labor negotiations; Telephone community meetings
• May 7, 2010
  Home Star Energy Retrofit Act; Campaign finance reform
• May 3, 2010
  Telephone community meetings scheduled
• April 29, 2010
  Financial regulatory reform; Special update on TARP; Recent votes
• April 16, 2010
  Unemployment benefits; Clean water; Bunker Hill Monument repairs; Jumpstart early education in Jamaica Plain
• April 5, 2010
  Followup on the health care bill
• March 29, 2010
  Health care; Air travel safety and traffic control modernization; Supporting small business
• March 20, 2010
  Mike's decision on the health care bill
• March 16, 2010
  Letter from Mike about the health care bill
• March 12, 2010
  Health care reform; Afghanistan; Haiti; Citizens United v. FEC ruling
• March 11, 2010
  Letter from Mike about health care
• March 5, 2010
  Job creation legislation; Keeping students safe; job training program targets Massachusetts' young adults
• March 1, 2010
  Congressional delegation to Haiti; Health Care antitrust legislation; renewal of PATRIOT Act provisions
• February 19, 2010
  Mike's activities during the district work period
• February 12, 2010
  Pay-As-You-Go Act; Haiti earthquake response; Legislative breakfast in Mattapan
• January 29, 2010
  State of the Union and using TARP funds to create jobs; Legislation filed in response to Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United vs. FEC
• January 22, 2010
  Haiti Earthquake; Health Care reform bill; Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United vs. FEC; TARP and bonuses
• December 21, 2009
  Jobs Creation; Defense Appropriations; Health Care Reform
• December 13, 2009
  Financial Regulatory Reform; Appropriations; Community Health Centers; Job Creation
• November 20, 2009
  Health Care; financial regulatory reform; Job creation
• November 9, 2009
  Health Care; Credit Card reform; House Administraction Committee debate on voter eligibility of foreclosed homeowners and tenants of foreclosed homes
• October 30, 2009
  Health Care; Interior/Environment Appropriations; Financial Regulatory Reform; Honoring Senator Edward Brooke
• October 23, 2009
  Sudan; HIV/AIDS; Solar Energy; Consumer Financial Protection; Credit Card Reform
• October 16, 2009
  Capitol Security; Homeland Security Appropriations; Social Security
• October 10, 2009
  Defense Authorization and Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act; appropriations for existing Department of Agriculture, Rural Dvelopment and FDA programs; urban greenery legislation
• September 25, 2009
  Medicare, Sudan, the Middle East
• September 18, 2009
  Education funding legislation; Energy efficient vehicle; Reforming Wall Street
• September 11, 2009
  Health care reform; Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Continuing Authorization Act
• August 24, 2009
  District work period; Health care; Transportation; Camp Ashraf; Affordable Housing
• July 31, 2009
  Health care reform; Transportation; Defense Appropriations legislation
• July 24, 2009
  Health care reform; "Pay-as-you-Go" Act; Appropriations legislation
• July 16, 2009
  Additional information about health care reform legislation
• July 14, 2009
  Health care reform legislation
• July 10, 2009
  Appropriations legislation
• July 1, 2009
  Climate change; Healthcare reform; Transportation
• June 26, 2009
  Climate change legislation; Homeland security appropriations; Interior appropriations; Surface Transportation Authorization Act
• June 19, 2009
  Supplemental appropriations; FY2010 appropriations; Climate change
• June 12, 2009
  Digital TV transition; vouchers for vehicle trade-ins; Foreign Relations Authorization Act; Pakistan; Tobacco legislation; TARP repayments
• May 22, 2009
  Foreclosures legislation; credit cardholders' bill of rights; FAA reauthorization; bipartisanship survey; telephone community meetings
• May 15, 2009
  Funding for Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; Wind Turbines in Massachusetts; Telephone community meetings
• May 8, 2009
  Mortgage reform; financial fraud; hedge funds
• May 1, 2009
  Federal budget; hate crime legislation; Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act; tunnel inspection legislation; Progressive Caucus meeting
• April 24, 2009
  Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act; National Water Research and Development Initiative Act
• April 9, 2009
  President's budget; El Salvador; telephone community meetings; district work period
• March 27, 2009
  Treasury's plan for "legacy assets"; FLAME Act; help for homeowners; upcoming telephone comunity meeting
• March 20, 2009
  Regulation reform roundtable; AIG and bonuses; Sudan; upcoming telephone comunity meeting
• March 13, 2009
  Budget for the federal government; water quality legislation; elections in El Salvador
• March 6, 2009
  Plan to reduce foreclosures and stabilize housing markets; congressional delegation to Afghanistan; ICC indictment of Sudanese president
• February 13, 2009
  Treasury Secretary Geithner's plan for stabilizing the banking system; lack of accountability of bank CEOs; Economic stimulus legislation
• February 6, 2009
  Health insurance for children; Digital television transition; Madoff hearing
• January 30, 2009
  H.R. 1: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; oversight of hedge fund managers; the Middle East
• January 23, 2009
  New White House administration; two votes related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); ongoing deliberation of the economic stimulus package; report on the Congressman's second recent economic roundtable
• January 16, 2009
  Health insurance for children (SCHIP); Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); economic stimulus package
• January 9, 2009
  The new Congress; current crisis in the Middle East; Fair Pay legislation
• December 11, 2008
  Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Accountability Act and the auto industry
• November 21, 2008
  Financial Services Committee hearing on the financial condition of the American automobile industry
• October 17, 2008
  Congressman Capuano hosts economic roundtable
• October 3, 2008
  Second House vote on the emergency economic stabilization bill
• September 29, 2008
  First House vote on the emergency economic stabilization bill
• September 26, 2008
  Financial services crisis; emergency economic stabilization bill
• September 19, 2008
  Financial services crisis; Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act; The Commodity Market Transparency and Accountability Act; Home heating; Tunnel inspection and bridge funding
• August 1, 2008
  Credit card holders' bill of rights; Appropriations bills: military construction and veterans' affairs; consumer product safety improvement; affordability of higher eduction; paycheck fairness;
• July 25, 2008
  Home heating oil; Medicare legislation; National Petroleum Reserve
• July 18, 2008
  Housing and foreclosure crisis; national tunnel inspection program; oil prices; leadership in HIV/AIDS treatment
• June 27, 2008
  Medicare improvements; Alternative minimum tax patch; Americans with Disabilities Act; Saving energy through public transportation; Sudan and human rights monitoring
• June 20, 2008
  FISA "capitulation" vote; amendments to supplemental spending bill — one that funds the war and another that establishes a new GI bill, unemployment benefits, funding for emergencies and disasters, and supports Medicaid; Capitol police equipment upgrades
• June 13, 2008
  Unemployment extension; Amtrak; Darfur
• June 6, 2008
  Concurrent Budget resolution for 2009; Darfur and the U.N. Security Council; community health centers legislation
• May 16, 2008
  Amendments to supplemental spend for FY2008; Strategic petroleum reserve; Farm bill; Telephone community meeting
• May 9, 2008
  Neighborhood Stabilization Act; amendments to housing legislation; VA consolidation; meeting students from Health Careers Academy
• May 2, 2008
  Genetic non-discrimination; Capitol security; recording for the blind and dyslexic; community health centers
• April 25, 2008
  Medicaid legislation; small business legislation; Coast Guard legislation
• April 18, 2008
  China, Darfur and the Olympics; Student Loans; International Debt Relief
• April 4, 2008
  Oversight in the dealings of the FAA; legislation on HIV/AIDS leadership; national fire administration
• March 28, 2008
  Activities in the district during district work period
• March 14, 2008
  New Office of Congressional Ethics, Foreign Intelligence Security Act
• March 7, 2008
  Ethics Committee; hedge funds; energy;health insurance
• February 15, 2008
  China and Darfur; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
• February 8, 2008
  Economic Stimulus Plan; The College and Opportunity Affordability Act; the President's FY2009 Budget
• February 1, 2008
  Economic Stimulus Plan, State of the Union Address; Iraq
• January 25, 2008
  Tunnel Inspection bill; SCHIP bill
• October 12, 2007
  MBTA Green Line extension, Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act, Tax Collection Responsibility Act
• September 21, 2007
  Expanding American Homeownership Act, TRIREA, FAA Reauthorization Act
• August 9, 2007
  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Minneapolis/St. Paul bridge collapse, tunnel inspection program, Deployment Policy Act, Agriculture/FDA appropriations, energy legislation
• July 13, 2007
  Big Dig tunnel collapse, College Cost Reduction Act, Redeployment from Iraq, Section 8 Voucher program
• June 15, 2007
  The public debt and the war in Iraq, improving background checks for gun purchases, FY2008 Appropriations Bills
• May 18, 2007
  COPS Reauthorization Act, National Defense Authorization Act, FY2008 Concurrent Budget Resolution, Community Health Centers
• April 20, 2007
  Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill, Disctrict of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, Water resources Development Act, Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation, Joseph E. Keane Federal Employees Freedom Act, Special Task Force on Ethics Enforcement
• March 23, 2007
  US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health and Iraq Accountability Act, Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act
• March 9, 2007
  Funding the war in Iraq, several House votes regarding water supply, House Committee on Administration
• January 12, 2007
  Troop escalation in Iraq, creating a nationwide highway tunnel inspection program, "100 Hours" legislation agenda: 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act, Fair Minimum Wage Act, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act
• December 20, 2006
  Transitioning to a Democrat-led House, a new committee assignment, the Big Dig and tunnel safety, Darfur, racial health disparities, and ongoing work in the Financial Services and Transporation and Infrastructure committees.
• November 11, 2006
  Letter from Mike to the district regarding upcoming work in the newly-elected Democrat majority of the House of Representatives
• October 27, 2006
  The Big Dig, Irish American Partnership, Jackson Square development, health insurance for children, the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
• September 8, 2006
  H.R. 503: the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, Darfur, the Reach Out and Read program, and a new website feature
• July 21, 2006
  The Big Dig, the proposed marriage amendment, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, violence in Israel and Lebanon, and the Pledge Protection Act
• June 30, 2006
  Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act, the ongoing situation in Iraq, a visit to the John Hancock headquarters and unveiling a new website feature
• May 12, 2006
  National Defense Authorization Act, Tax Reconciliation Act, surveillance and deadlines for the Medicare prescription drug program
• April 14, 2006
  NESSARA meeting, telecommunications legislation, Irish-American partnership, ongoing involvement in Iraq
• March 17, 2006
  Emergency Appropriations bill, Darfur, MBTA Silver Line, community meeting in Chinatown
• March 3, 2006
  Congressional delegation to Darfur, Answering a subscriber's query, U.S. Port Security
• February 17, 2006
  Iran's nuclear capability, new Chief of the Federal Reserve, visit to Draper Labs in Cambridge
• December 21, 2005
  PATRIOT Act reauthorization, Immigration legislation, and several appropriations bills