PENNSYLVANIA — Yesterday, in an interview on FOX 43’s Capitol Beat, PA Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward made it clear that she will continue to block legislation that would give childhood sexual abuse victims their day in court. The reason? Harrisburg Republican leaders are in the pockets of the insurance lobby. For years, the insurance ... Read more

PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania Democratic Party Spokesperson Rosie Lapowsky issued the following statement after today’s announcement that the Pennsylvania economy gained 18,500 jobs last month and the state’s unemployment rate changed to 6.9%: “Today’s strong jobs report makes it clear that President Biden’s economic agenda is working. Pennsylvania’s unemployment numbers fell more in the month of May ... Read more

PA GOP Senate Candidates attack each other over Clinton ties and Trump loyalty in Pittsburgh City Paper PENNSYLVANIA — A new report from Pittsburgh City Paper, “GOP Senate candidate Jeff Bartos donated to and praised Democrats in past, challenger Sean Parnell responds” featured the latest in a series of bitter fights between Sean Parnell and ... Read more

Barletta doubles down on his far-right agenda, opposing a tax credit that would benefit 3 million Pennsylvania children and substantially reduce childhood poverty.  PENNSYLVANIA — On Monday night, Lou Barletta announced his opposition to the widely popular Child Tax Credit that would give almost every family in Pennsylvania $3,000 per child and $3,600 per child ... Read more

Beginning in July, families across Pennsylvania will receive monthly payments as part of the expanded Child Tax Credit in Democrats’ American Rescue Plan PENNSYLVANIA— Today is Child Tax Credit Awareness Day, aimed at ensuring parents know about the American Rescue Plan’s historic expansion of the Child Tax Credit and how it will benefit their families. In ... Read more

PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Patton Mills released the following statement on Vice President Harris’s upcoming visit to Pittsburgh: “We welcome Vice President Harris to the Steel City, and we’re grateful for the much-needed relief she and President Biden have already brought to the people of Pennsylvania. Thanks to the policies of the ... Read more

PENNSYLVANIA — Today the Supreme Court issued its historic decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act from a challenge by the Trump Administration and 18 Republican attorneys general, protecting access to health care for almost a million Pennsylvanians and $5.1 billion in federal funding for health coverage in the commonwealth.  The decision comes as Pennsylvania’s ... Read more

Doug Mastriano copied Bill McSwain on a letter in December detailing a litany of false claims in an effort to overturn the 2020 election.  PENNSYLVANIA — In their ongoing investigation into Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to use the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election, the U.S. House Oversight Committee released a trove of ... Read more

The Trump-centric Republican primary grows larger with another candidate who wants to play all sides but refuses to denounce the Big Lie. PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania Republicans’ “super MAGA Trump” primary got even more crowded today as longtime Harrisburg insider Charlie Gerow entered the race, embracing the latest MAGA litmus test. Following the advice of his ... Read more

PENNSYLVANIA — Today, WHYY reported on the push the Pennsylvania Democrats are making for a massive one-time investment in schools plagued with crumbling infrastructure and problems like exposed asbestos. Pennsylvania is expected to receive more than $7 billion from the American Rescue Plan, and the funds from Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration have ... Read more