PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 24 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Sept. 23, 2024: Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA02) and Veterans Multi-Service Center (VMC) Executive Director, Joe Brooks, today heralded the Department of Veterans Affairs recent awarding of $740,000 to VMC for tailored suicide prevention programs and services for Veterans and their families. Tuesday morning Congressman Boyle & Executive Director Brooks held a brief news conference  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) spoke on the House floor about Project 2025, the extreme MAGA Republican agenda that gives the President unprecedented powers to control the government and our lives and then uses that power to hurt the middle class, end Social Security and Medicare as we know it, and criminalize abortion nationwide. Read Rep. Scanlon's remarks as prepared for delivery below.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Scanlon (PA-05) today joined Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA), and Congressmen Dwight Evans (PA-03) and Brendan Boyle (PA-02) in announcing the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PhilaPort) is receiving a total of $217,000,000 in funding to expand the operational capacity of the SouthPort terminal. The operational expansion will create a new space for ships and e  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-New York, issued the following news release: Today, New York Congressmen Ritchie Torres (NY-15) and Mike Lawler (NY-17) are celebrating the passage of H.R.9106, the Enhanced Presidential Security Act of 2024, by a vote of 405-0. Reps. Torres and Lawler introduced this bill in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The Enhanced Presidential Security Act of 2024 would establ  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 23, 2024: Last week, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, applauded a tentative deal between Constellation Energy and Microsoft to reopen a Three Mile Island nuclear unit that was shuttered five years ago for economic reasons near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The deal is driven b  more