WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following statement on May 3, 2023: * * * Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA02) issued the following statement on Russia's illegal detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Evan's parents are Boyle's constituents. "It has been five weeks now that journalist Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained by Russian authorities. "To date, Russia has failed to present any convincing proof to support its concocted  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: Reps. Smucker, Blumenauer (OR-3), Tenney (NY-24), and Schneider (IL-10) announce the introduction of the Primary Care Enhancement Act, H.R. 3029, bipartisan legislation designed to expand access to Direct Primary Care (DPC). The legislation would clarify provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to remove barriers for individuals with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) from using those funds to  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is applauding the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) adoption of furniture safety standards, a critical step towards implementation of Senator Casey's bipartisan Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth (STURDY) Act, The STURDY Act strengthens furniture safety standards to prevent furniture tip-over accidents, which cause an average of 1  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, as well as Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), are introducing the Grandfamily Housing Act, legislation that would improve housing for grandfamilies. Many grandparents and kinship caregivers step in when parents are no longer able to care for the  more