Category: U.S Senate News

  • Unsustainable Budget Threatens U.S.

    Repeated battles over the 2011 budget are taking attention from a more dire problem—the long-run budget deficit. Divided government is no excuse for inaction. The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, under co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, issued a report on the problem in December supported by 11 Democrats and Republicans —…

  • Toomey Takes Oath As Pa.’s New US Senator

    WFMZ-TV The new Congress — with its Republican majority in the House and a weakened Democratic majority in the Senate — opened its 112th session on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. […]

  • Congress, State Capitols And GOP

    Lancaster Online It’s good to be a Republican these days. In November’s midterm congressional elections, the GOP wrested control of the U.S. House from Democrats and made significant inroads in […]

  • Toomey Impressed With Boeing Plant

    Alex Rose Delaware County Daily Times Republican U.S. Senator-elect Pat Toomey said he was impressed with innovations taking place on assembly lines for the Chinook Helicopter and Osprey V-22 at […]

  • Toomey Visits Mechanicsburg Company In Tour Of State

    WHTM Senator-elect Pat Toomey made a stop Monday in Cumberland County as part of his tour of the state to meet with major employers and job creators. Toomey visited Select […]

  • Toomey On Health Care Ruling: “A Step In The Right Direction”

    Politics PA Senator-elect Pat Toomey voiced his support for today’s ruling of a federal district court that the individual mandate portion of the health care law is unconstitutional. “I haven’t […]

  • Toomey Urges Austerity Before Jobless Benefits

    Mike Wereschagin Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sen.-elect Pat Toomey said Thursday that Congress should extend unemployment benefits but must pay for them by cutting money elsewhere. With Republicans about to take control […]

  • Senator-Elect Toomey Talks With Channel 11

    WPXI In about a month Republican Pat Toomey will be sworn in as the United States senator representing Pennsylvania. On Thursday, Toomey spoke with Channel 11’s Rick Earle in a […]

  • GOP Targets Casey’s Senate Seat In 2012

    John Guerriero Erie Times-News The state Republican Party issued a similar message. “If we want to repeal ObamaCare, stop the excessive spending and implement real change in Washington, D.C., we […]