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 — President Biden’s American Jobs Plan will bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American, including to more than one in three rural Americans who lack access to broadband at minimally acceptable speeds — unless Pennsylvania Republicans and their allies in Congress get their way. President Biden’s American Jobs Plan will make a historic ... 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
New reporting confirms that Trump-linked, far-right organization paid for Mastriano, Kauffman, and Dush’s trip to the sham “audit” in Arizona. PENNSYLVANIA — After ducking questions for weeks about who paid for their trip to Arizona, new reporting revealed that former Trump administration lawyer and far-right propagandist Christina Bobb paid for Doug Mastriano, Chris Dush, and ... 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 voted 7-2 to uphold the Affordable Care Act and protect health care coverage for millions of Americans — coverage that GOP candidate for governor Lou Barletta fought to rip away throughout his career. While in Congress, Lou Barletta co-sponsored a resolution calling the ACA unconstitutional and voted multiple times to ... 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
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