Category: Congressional News

Delaware County Times Some top Republican lawmakers are saying they are willing to stand up against a conservative lobbyist and consider raising more money through taxes as part of a […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Blair County Republican Bill Shuster greeted reporters with a broad smile Wednesday in his first roundtable with journalists since his caucus selected him as chairman of the U.S. […]

The Intelligencer “To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” — Thomas Jefferson In a Nov. 15 interview with The Hill, Sen. Patty […]

Harrisburg Patriot-News U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., will take over as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when the 113th Congress convenes. Shuster, who was recently re-elected to the seat […]

Wilkes Barre Times-Leader U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, has filed seven amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act including one that would create a pilot program to help veterans find […]

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Pennsylvania’s Republican congressmen appear likely to stick with their anti-tax pledge, though many experts consider that vow an impediment to negotiating a deal with the White House to […]

WTAE A Pennsylvania congressman is fighting to keep an air wing from being closed. U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy wants to save the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon Township. Murphy said […]

Associated Press As Tammy Duckworth sees it, her path to Congress began when she awoke in the fall of 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was missing both […]

Chester Daily Local Conservatives have been dreaming that a political reincarnation of Ronald Reagan would lead them to an electoral promised land. I never put my faith in such a […]