Category: Congressional News
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Toomey Co-Sponsors Earmark Ban
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A temporary ban on Congressional earmarks could become an enduring law of the land under a bill amendment sponsored by Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. […]
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Local Elected Officials Gather For Mixer
Carlisle Sentinel More than 130 local elected officials, from school board members and borough council members to township supervisors, state representatives, state senators and congressmen, gathered at the Allenberry Playhouse […]
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Shickshinny Post Office Will Reopen, Barletta Says
Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice The Shickshinny Post Office should reopen within 60 days after flooding from Tropical Storm Lee in September forced it to close, U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta announced today. […]
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Poll: Casey Who?
Philadelphia Daily News With one of the best-known names in Pennsylvania politics, Bob Casey Jr. easily won a seat in the U.S. Senate six years ago during a referendum election […]
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Obama Recycles Rhetoric From Old SOTU Addresses [VIDEO]
RNC The day after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, the Republican National Committee is up with a new video suggesting that if the address sounded familiar, it’s […]
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Senate GOP: We’ll Pass A Budget Every Year
The Hill Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged Tuesday that Republicans would pass a budget every year if they win control of the Senate in November. The election-year promise […]
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State Of The Union: Rep. Meehan Responds
Treddyffrin-Easttown Patch Republican Congressman Pat Meehan’s 7th Congressional District boundries are changing, but for now he still represents a small part of the Tredyffrin-Easttown Patch area. Tuesday night Meehan (R-PA […]
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One Thousand Days Without A Budget: The GOP Calls Out The “Do-Nothing Democrats” In The Senate
Kate Harvard Weekly Standard It has been 1,000 days since the Senate has produced a budget, and congressional Republicans are getting fed up. While the Obama administration is fond of […]
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Killing Keystone XL Pipeline Un-American
Rep. Tom Marino Consider this. You are presented with a $7 billion, shovel-ready project that would immediately create 20,000 good-paying, union-scale jobs with the promise of thousands more. The project […]