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President Donald Trump favors building a wall on the Mexican border and has cracked down severely on illegal immigration, but has yet to propose his own comprehensive plan. A one-page memo his administration sent to congressional Republicans in January proposes a wall, a 10- to 12-year path to citizenship for about 1.8 million illegal immigrants, allowing immigrants to bring with them only spouses and minor children and replacing the visa lottery system with one that chooses immigrants whose arrival suits the national interest.
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U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, the Republican nominee in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race, talks to supporters during an election night results party on May 15 in Hazleton, Pa. I cover national politics and policy from Washington D.C., with a focus on Pennsylvania and New Jersey lawmakers and issues.
The former Wall Street investment banker from Palmer Twp., Northampton County, celebrated his 55th birthday Tuesday by defeating two other candidates to win the Republican U.S. House nomination in the redrawn 8th Congressional District. His victory sets up a showdown in the Nov. 6 general election against incumbent U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright of Moosic, who was unopposed for Democratic nomination.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright's relatively weak re-election campaign showing two years ago and shifting congressional district boundary lines have Republicans thinking they can beat him this year. Three Republicans - John Chrin, Joe Peters and Robert Kuniegel - hope to win the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional District seat in the May 15 primary election.
Ninth District U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith and colleagues are pushing for passage of legislation that would free up $1 billion for job-creating reclamation projects in the Appalachian region.
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SETH WENIG / ASSOCIATED PRESS Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to sign copies of her book "What Happened" at a bookstore in New York on Tuesday. United States Congressman Matt Cartwright, , shakes hands with guests as he hosted a "Coffee with your Congressman" event at B'Nai B'rith Apartments, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Tuesday July 11, 2017.
An Easton Area High School graduate has been accepted into the United States Military Academy Preparatory School at West Point. U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright nominated Matthew Horace to attend the academy.
A number of funding bills have advanced through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in the past two weeks. Lawmakers are eager to make progress on fiscal year 2018 spending before leaving the Capitol for their annual summer recess.
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Tom Marino, incumbent candidate for 10th Congressional District, speaks during an interview with the Times Tribune editorial board Wednesday. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer Don Sherwood, a Wyoming County resident, ended the streak in 1999, and the chances of Lackawanna starting a new streak remain slim.
As President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress take steps to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, people in Scranton rallied to try to save it. About 200 people gathered on Courthouse Square on Sunday.
On Jan. 22, 1959, his pregnant wife was due, but he went to work as scheduled at noon. He arrived in time to see the Susquehanna River break through the mine walls and swallow it up in a "violent" whirlpool.
Kristopher Jones announces that a leading software development firm, UM Technologies, has acquired LSEO.com a company he founded. cv18jones Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice WARREN RUDA / THE CITIZENS' VOICE Scott Stiner, CEO of UM Technologies, said Wilkes-Barre 'is where we've decided to build the corporate staffs.'
PETER CAMERON / STAFF PHOTO Lackawanna County Judge Thomas J. Munley speaks at the John Mitchell Day program Saturday in front of the labor leader's grave in Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton. PETER CAMERON / STAFF PHOTO Lackawanna County Judge Thomas J. Munley speaks at the John Mitchell Day program Saturday in front of the labor leader's grave in Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton.
While U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-11, Hazleton, was successfully amending the Defense Appropriations bill to prevent U.S. military installations - regardless of their locations - from purchasing energy from Russia, thereby aiding Pennsylvania coal producers and employees, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-17, Moosic, was introducing legislation that would prohibit the practice of self-bonding of coal companies nationwide. Mr. Barletta debated on the House floor that Russian President Vladimir Putin has a history of using his energy reserves to gain political influence over other nations, and that the U.S. armed forces should not be subjected to similar pressure.
Rep. Matt Cartwright has proposed a program that offers financial incentives to those who donate kidneys. A plan that may help 100,000 Americans who are on a waitlist anxiously awaiting a new kidney, when every day at least 12 people die in the U.S. because there are not enough donors.