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– U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta’s bill to protect volunteer firefighters from requirements in the national health care reform law is supposed to hit the House floor later this afternoon. The bill aims to...
View ArticleBarletta pushes end to Obama’s illegal immigration executive orders
House Speaker John Boehner is letting U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta lead the way on taking away the money necessary to carry out President Barack Obama’s executive orders on illegal immigration. Mr. Barletta,...
View ArticleWolf names new cabinet secretaries, and Barletta immigration amendment is passed
Less than a week before his inauguration, Gov.-elect Tom Wolf continues to round out his cabinet. Today, he officially announced former Hazleton Mayor John Quigley as his secretary of environmental...
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Marino hits Fox to talk immigration, and Joe Kennedy headed here
U.S. Rep. Tom Marino picked up some national attention Tuesday when he appeared on the Fox News Channel to talk about House Republicans’ planned illegal immigration amendments to the Department of...
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This is kind of fun to know. As Democrats push legislation trying to get employers to provide paid maternity and paternity leave for employees, the Huffington Post, Roll Call and the New York Times...
View ArticleLocal congressmen flush with campaign cash and Cartwright tops
The campaign finance reports for the first quarter for members of Congress are in and the local boys are doing better than the same period two years ago. Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-11,...
View ArticleMarino, Barletta endorse McCarthy as new House speaker
Almost a dozen members of Pennsylvania’s Republican congressional delegation, including Rep. Lou Barletta and Rep. Tom Marino, today endorsed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California as the...
View ArticleBarletta, Marino back Ryan for House Speaker, Cartwright backs Pelosi
Republican elected U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as the new House Speaker today and his 236 supporters included Rep. Lou Barletta and Rep. Tom Marino. No surprise there or in what Mr. Barletta said...
View ArticleReax to president’s State of the Union speech from Cartwright, Marino, Barletta
Here are the local congressmen’s reaction to the president’s State of the Union speech: U.S. REP. MATT CARTWRIGHT, D-17, MOOSIC: “Tonight’s State of the Union address was the President’s last, and he...
View ArticleUpdated: Brian Kelly wants to be a congressman and a U.S. senator
Brian Kelly wanted to be a congressman. He lost. He wanted to be Wilkes-Barre’s mayor. He lost. Now he wants to be a congressman, then a U.S. senator after his first term in the House is up. I’m not...
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