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Sen. Pat Toomey delivered this week's Republican address talking about a variety of issues and how the GOP would tackle them in the new administration. The senator cited repealing and replacing Obamacare, fixing infrastructure in America, working to "reform our convoluted tax code" and eliminating "regulations and red tape that have slowed the economy" as some of the objectives for Republicans.
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The most expensive U.S. Senate race in history is unfolding in Pennsylvania, where Wall Street, unions and billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are flooding the state with money. At least $139 million has been spent by advocacy groups and the candidates, Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and Democrat Katie McGinty, Federal Election Commission filings show.
On Nov. 8, voters in Pennsylvania are set to decide whether to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. Judicial-age ballot question fight could cost $890,000 On Nov. 8, voters in Pennsylvania are set to decide whether to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. Check out this story on ydr.com: http://on-ydr.co/2eGinsV On Nov. 8, voters in Pennsylvania are set to decide whether to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. The Pennsylvania Department of State estimates it will have to spend about $699,050 readvertising a ballot question on whether to raise the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75. The Pennsylvania General Assembly's months-long legal fight over the wording of a ballot question about whether to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 could end up costing ... (more)
Pennsylvania may be able to avoid REAL ID problems for residents if it revokes a law banning compliance with the federal regulation and shows progress in meeting the requirements, U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle said Friday. Mr. Doyle, D-Forest Hills, said he expects Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders in Harrisburg to begin taking steps soon to repeal the 2011 REAL ID Nonparticipation Act, which prohibits the state from meeting federal ID requirements passed in 2005.
Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania universities are officially on strike after failing to reach an agreement with administration officials before the self-imposed deadline. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties met over the past weekend in a last-ditch effort to avert a faculty strike that would close classes for 105,000 students.
The U.S. Navy is commissioning the USS John P. Murtha, a new ship named in honor of the late longtime Pennsylvania congressman and decorated Marine Corps veteran. Thousands are expected to honor Murtha on Saturday at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia during a ceremony to place the ship into active service.
In the 22 years since the 1994 Republican midterm landslide, the landscape of partisan power in state governments has changed dramatically. The Republican Party was the minority party in state government for almost seventy straight years before the Gingrich Contract with America transformed not only control of Congress but vitally control of state legislatures, long the hardest bastion of Democrat power in politics and quietly the key to Democrat dominance of American politics.
Warren, who has not been shy about her opposition to Republican nominee Donald Trump, will appear at an event in Philadelphia on Friday. "Warren will lay out the high stakes of November's elections for Pennsylvania families and urge Pennsylvanians to register to vote ahead of the October 11 deadline," according to a press release from the Clinton campaign.
A poll tracking the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in several key battleground states shows Clinton leading Trump in Pennsylvania, but within the margin of error in Iowa and Ohio. According to the poll released Tuesday by NBC/WSJ/Marist, Clinton has emerged with a statistically significant 9-point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Endangered Sen. Pat Toomey is banking on Pennsylvania voters backing him in November even if they oppose fellow Republican Donald Trump, a ticket-splitting strategy that may help determine whether the GOP can hang on to its Senate majority this election year. "Pennsylvania voters are really quite sophisticated and they know for sure that Donald Trump is in a category unto himself," Toomey told reporters on a conference call Friday.
Hillary Clinton is announced as the Democratic Presidential nominee during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 26, 2016. / AFP / SAUL LOEB PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 26: Sen. Bernie Sanders smiles during roll call on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.