(The Center Square) – Three Philadelphia post offices have agreed to take corrective action after the office responsible for overseeing their operations found multiple service issues. State lawmakers pressed the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General to perform an audit of the Germantown Station after years of complaints from residents. The OIG widened the […]

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee called up legislation Thursday aimed at helping the federal government avoid a catastrophic debt default, even as Democrats charged the bill would fuel “economic chaos.” The committee convened to discuss the House Republicans’ Default Prevention Act, which would exempt principle and interest payments on the debt and Medicare and […]

A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers are supporting a bill to reauthorize funding of conservation efforts along the Delaware River. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Middletown Township, is among the group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers introducing and supporting the Delaware River Basin Conservation Reauthorization Act. The legislation proposes changes to major program components to […]

Representative Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) led his colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden strongly encouraging him to appoint a new Architect of the Capitol (AOC) who will enforce the ban on members of Congress from carrying firearms on the House Floor. This follows multiple reports of members violating the 1967 regulation.  The letter […]

WASHINGTON — Nearly 80 Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the White House expressing their “great concern” that the Biden administration is walking back on its promise to restore migrants’ access to asylum. In the letter, they also condemned the administration’s expansion of a controversial policy that immediately turns away migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, known […]

PENNSYLVANIA — Facing corporate price gouging and an enormous rent crisis that has forced millions of middle-class Americans to pay skyrocketing costs and put others out on the streets in the middle of winter, the White House introduced a program Wednesday to provide some measure of relief. But advocates say it doesn’t go nearly far […]

An eight-year campaign to release detained migrant women at Berks County Residential Center came to a close on Tuesday, Jan. 11, when immigration rights activists announced that all remaining detainees were released.  When a coalition of immigration advocacy groups rallied at a Philly-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in December to enjoin the release of the migrant […]

“If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu,” Thompson told the crowd.Technically the event had to be termed a congressional listening session, rather than an ag committee public hearing, which would have a formal set of rules and be made part of the official committee record.“It’s not an official hearing, but, well, […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The pathway to a new federal Farm Bill began with a listening session at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Jan. 13, and the Friday night event offered early indications of its direction. Hosted by U.S. Rep. Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, R-Pa., who is the new chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, more than 20 speakers told a panel […]

The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) has announced that — for the first time in more than 12 years — the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program will open its waiting list. HCV (formerly known as Section 8) is a federal government program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, […]