WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Despite greater need for caregiving than ever before, care workers across the Nation are overworked and underpaid, resulting in a severe workforce shortage The Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act would provide the support workers need to make caregiving a lifelong career New bill continues Casey's leadership on calling out and addressing the Nation's caregiving crisis Casey: "We cannot claim to  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced legislation to tackle the caregiving crisis by reprioritizing long-term caregivers and supporting their work based on the value they bring to families across the Nation. Millions of f  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 16, 2024: U.S. Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA-08), a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, welcomed and addressed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland at today's House Appropriations Hearing on the proposed Justice Department's Fiscal Year 2025 budget request. A transcript of Cartwr  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement on the Department of Labor (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) finalizing its proposal to amend current federal standards to better protect America's miners from health hazards related to exposure to respirab  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the Antisemitism Awareness Act. The bill will help address antisemitic sentiment and action on college campuses--which has been rising across the Nation for years and spiked in the wake of Hamas' terrorist attack on October 7, 2023--by requiring the U.S. Department of Education to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Today, during a full Ways & Means Committee hearing addressing trade, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Chairman of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Tax, called on U.S. Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai and the Biden Administration to defend domestic steel production amid a surge of foreign steel imports from countries including China and Mexico. From 2017-2022, there has been a 73% increase in Mexican steel i  more

MT. LEBANON, Pennsylvania, April 17 -- Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) joined PennEnvironment and religious leaders at St. Paul's Episcopal Church today in Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny County to tour the rooftop solar panels that the church installed. Houses of worship across Pennsylvania and the nation are increasingly powered by the sun, thanks in part to new federal clean energy tax credits from the  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following remarks on April 16, 2024: * * * Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) delivered the following remarks on the House floor when he managed the Rule Debate on several measures to support Israel, America's strongest ally in the Middle East, and hold Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, accountable for its recent attacks. The bills under consideration include H.R. 6323, the Iran Counter  more