WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following statement on Feb. 28, 2024: * * * Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement calling for a bilateral ceasefire in Israel and Gaza: "Less than a week ago, I returned from my second trip to the Israeli and Palestinian territories since the October 7th brutal attacks. The visits allowed me to speak with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv and Jerusal more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman this week joined Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and seven additional Senate colleagues to introduce the Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2024. The bill, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), would prohibit corporate price gouging by empowering the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to prohibit the sellers from charging grossly excessive price more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) announced $3,322,211 to bolster early childhood education at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center (COTRAIC). These funds come from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will specifically invest in the Center's Early Head Start Program, which serves children ages 0-3 in the Native American community and other histori more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Dr. Brad Wenstrup (OH-2) are announcing the introduction of the Reduce Duplication and Improve Access to Work Act, H.R. 7446. This legislation would grant states flexibility to devote a portion of funds received from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to workforce training programs organized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIO more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Bill empowers Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to crack down on corporations reducing product size without a reduction in price Since fall 2023, Senator Casey has produced four reports detailing his investigations into corporate greed squeezing families' budgets According to government data compiled in Casey's greedflation series, from June 2020 through June 2022, inflation ros more PR

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania, Feb. 29 -- Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: As we near the end of Black History Month, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), alongside Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) and Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-03), introduced a bill to designate the Norristown post office as the Charles L. Blockson Post Office. Located at 28 E. Airy Street, the post office would honor the late Charles Blockson, prolific writer, collector, scholar, an more PR