Category: U.S Senate News

  • Sen. Toomey: Navy To Launch USS Somerset In Philadelphia

    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Ken Nacke of Baltimore hopes to be in Philadelphia in January as the Navy commissions the USS Somerset, formally placing the ship into active service. Nacke’s brother, Louis […]

  • Toomey: Obama Has Mismanaged Sequester

    Chester Daily Local The sequester budget cuts that recently had Congress scrambling to untangle the mess caused by furloughed air traffic controllers is more manageable than the Obama administration is […]

  • Toomey Wants FAA To Locate Traffic Control Center At Army Depot

    Scranton Times Tribune U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey updated officials at Tobyhanna Army Depot on Wednesday about efforts to bring an air traffic control center to the military installation. “I can’t […]

  • Toomey: Better Gun Background Checks Would Definitely Help

    Philadelphia Inquirer Is there a way that we, as Americans, can improve our ability to stop guns from getting into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill, without […]

  • Gun Proposal Elevates Toomey To PA’s Most Valuable Political Asset: Analysis

    Harrisburg Patriot-News Though the sun has set on the celebrated public careers of Arlen Specter, Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania’s last generation of national political giants, it may well […]

  • Toomey, Manchin Unveil Background Check Package

    Politics PA Sen. Pat Toomey and his Democratic colleague Joe Manchin of West Virginia Wednesday unveiled a legislative proposal to subject more gun purchases to background checks. “I’ve not taken […]

  • U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey To Speak At Republican Club Of York County Event

    York Daily Record U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., will speak at the Republican Club of York County’s annual Shrimp Dinner at the Yorktowne Hotel on April 18, according to a […]

  • Inside The NRSC’s Comeback Strategy

    Roll Call The National Republican Senatorial Committee plans to expand its press operation to train campaigns earlier in the cycle on how to better handle the kind of candidate missteps […]

  • The GOP’s Mr. Demeanor

    John Baer Philadelphia Inquirer THE LONGER the insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result) plays out in Washington, the saner Pat Toomey sounds. And […]