A Philadelphia congressman has joined a growing chorus of officials calling on Mayor Jim Kenney for a more robust response to address escalating gun violence. On Friday, U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans said in a letter that the mayor must “take immediate action” on reducing homicides and shootings, both of which are on track to surpass […]

U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) on July 19 sponsored a bipartisan bill that aims to help America’s small businesses prepare for cyberattacks. “Cyberattacks are ramping up against everything from our critical infrastructure to schools and small businesses and we must do more to prepare for and mitigate against these attacks,” Rep. Garbarino said on Monday. […]

U.S. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and Dwight Evans (D-PA) introduced Monday the Small Business Cyber Security Training Act, which seeks to aid small businesses in cyberattack preparedness. The legislators indicated the legislation would assist the Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) in enhancing efforts to help small businesses with cybersecurity […]

Watson Coleman, Toomey Introduce Semiquincentennial Commemorative Coin Act Bill would direct the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman announced the introduction of H.R. 4429, the Semiquincentennial Commemorative Coin Act. The year 2026 will be the 250th anniversary of […]

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., reiterated calls to drastically up government funding levels for technology-driving research and development—and to form a new executive branch agency with a focus on innovation. Legislation introduced by the Silicon Valley congressman on Friday includes proposals that would affect multiple federal agencies and stand up the Federal Institute of Technology. Deemed FIT for […]

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today led four colleagues urging President Biden to appoint a new Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division. There has not been a Senate-confirmed chief tax federal prosecutor in 2,597 days – over seven years. […]

Majeedah Rashid, CEO of the Nicetown CDC, has seen firsthand how a highway extension can rip through a neighborhood and create a de facto border between residents. “Over the years we realized that it divided the community,” Rashid said. “They have that type of mentality like they’re from one part of the neighborhood and somebody else on […]

President Joe Biden laid out his case Tuesday in Philadelphia for enacting a pair of federal voting rights proposals that he says would thwart an assault on voting rights taking “new and literally pernicious forms.” In a nearly 25-minute speech inside the National Constitution Center, Biden said voting regulations enacted in more than a dozen […]

Earlier this year, a group of state lawmakers from Wilmington urged Delaware’s federal delegation to support the idea of putting a cap on top of I-95 to reconnect city neighborhoods that were split in two by the highway’s construction decades ago. On Monday, they got their wish. U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware was joined by […]

Officials are looking to spend significantly to address transportation infrastructure which has created societal divides, in cities like Wilmington where interstate highways run directly through communities. Delaware’s U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester is working with U.S. Representative Dwight Evans (D-Pennsylvania) to try and send communities like Wilmington and Philadelphia $3 billion to reconnect. “The purpose of […]