WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Today, the Democratic Staff of the House Budget Committee released two fact sheets highlighting both the tax fairness and health care proposals in President Biden's 2025 budget. The forward-looking agenda outlined in these fact sheets is a stark contrast to the bleak and backward 2025 Republican budget resolution. While the budget reporte more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement on March 12, 2024: * * * Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan F. Boyle, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported an annualized inflation rate for February of 3.2 percent: "Today's data shows the annual inflation rate remaining sharply down from its peak in mid-2022," more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The House Education and the Workforce Committee issued the following written testimony by University of Pennsylvania student Noah Rubin at a roundtable discussion on Feb. 29, 2024, on antisemitism at post-secondary institutions: * * * My name is Noah Rubin and I am a student at the University of Pennsylvania. I am grateful to share my story and give voice to Jewish students at UPenn and across the country who, like me, are enduring an increasingly antisemetic and unsaf more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) from today's hearing, entitled, "Disaster Readiness: Examining the Propriety of the Expanded Use of FEMA Resour more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: During Tuesday's Ways & Means Committee hearing which examined opportunities and challenges in enhancing access to care in patients' homes and modernizing care in rural and underserved communities, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) championed telehealth legislation he co-led, the Telehealth Extension Act, which he first introduced in 2021. This bipartisan bill ensures permanent access to telehealth for patien more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Last week, Representative Wild voted to approve $10,921,479 in Community Project Funding for Pennsylvania's 7th District, which she advocated for in the 2024 government funding packages. This funding, included in the first of the appropriations bills, responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in the Greater Lehigh Valley, including millions for public safety programs. "I am incredibly proud  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) successfully secured $61 million in community project funding through the passage of H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law on March 9, 2024. "I'm proud to announce that my efforts have secured $61 million in community project funding for southwestern Pennsylvania through our appropriatio more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 12 -- Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) and U.S. Representatives Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) and Brendan Boyle (D-PA-2), and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker secured $158,911,664 in federal funding to reconnect Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood across the Vine Street Expressway (I-676), which split the historic neighborhood apart when it was  more PR