Even as he pushed for more restrictions on abortion in the Senate's health care bill, U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. promised he would propose an amendment designed to help pregnant women, and make adoption more attractive.
The amendment failed Tuesday. This afternoon, Casey followed through.
Casey's amendments would increase support [...]
Here at Pennsylvania Avenue, we get snowed under every day with email press releases. Our staff just can't keep up with them.
But to keep you up with the latest activities of your elected representatives, and the folks who would like to kick them out of office, we'll try to sum [...]
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone poll gives Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Pat Toomey leads over both his potential Democratic opponents in a mano-a-mano general election match-up.
The poll, released yesterday, says Toomey's edge over incumbent Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter is 46-42 percent, nearly the same as it was in October: 45-40. About 8 percent [...]
Hazelton Mayor Lou Barletta is back.
And he's ready for another shot at long-time 11th District incumbent Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski.
Here's a sample of some of what you can expect, from his official campaign announcement video: The only thing missing is the swelling music in the background.
"This year, I became a [...]
It's a big global warming news day.
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled greenhouse gasses to be pollutants, international leaders are meeting on climate change in Copenhagen, and Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent has joined a few dozen colleagues in urging an investigation into "climategate."
Dent and his cosigners have written [...]
Delaware County Congressman Joe Sestak, who's contesting incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in next year's Democratic primary burnished his credentials with the party's liberal base Monday by picking up Mass Rep. Barney Frank's endorsement.
Frank becomes the first member of Congress to back Sestak, a retired Navy Admiral. (See the campaign's somewhat [...]
For all the chatter--mostly from Republicans--that President Barack Obama's Dec. 4 visit to the Lehigh Valley was designed in part to boost Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan's 15th District Congressional campaign against incumbent Republican Charlie Dent, it didn't exactly turn out that way.
The closest the president got to Bethlehem was when [...]
If Courtovich's name sounds familiar, that may be because he was the Harrisburg face of the ill-starred 2008 effort to lease out the [...]
In the meantime, here's the script of the spot:
Title: "Stimulus II"
Time: 00:60
MALE: Did you [...]
With the president on his way, pro- and anti-Obama types brought small business owners out this week to talk about the benefits or hazards of the Democrats' health care reform efforts.
On one side, local 9/12 Tea Party activists held a press conference in Bethlehem Wednesday to decry the Obama Adminstration's [...]
The White House has been carefully trying to avoid any appearance that Barack Obama's visit to the area Friday has any political motives, especially involving the 2010 Congressional elections.
There will be no political fundraisers or rallies for local candidates.
But that won't stop the parties or candidates from taking advantage of [...]
About 25 years ago, during Bethlehem Steel's heyday or at least when it was still in business in the Lehigh Valley, this would have been a big story locally.
But, there are still plenty of local folks who worked at The Steel, or remember it well, so here we go.
Sen. Arlen Specter [...]
It's one of the staples of political stagecraft: A national figure stops by a local diner to get a read on the mood of the local citizenry.
There's some evidence the White House may be planning to have President Barack Obama drop by a local [...]
The address before the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night will not only be used to announce the immediate' [...]
The Keystone State was well represented at Tuesday night's state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first of Barack Obama's presidency.
Among the Pennsylvanians who dined on potato and eggplant salad, arugula (of course), red lentil soup, roasted potato dumplings and prawns with green curry were:
Sen. [...]
Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy will recieve his New Frontier Award from the Harvard University Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation this afternoon.
Couldn't get tickets? Too busy working? Washing your hair this afternoon?
Check it out here: Live streaming video [...]
Predicting the outcome of a political races isn't exactly science, so take this one with a measure of caution, but one of the nation's more respected handicappers The Rothenberg Report, now says the Pa. Senate race is up for grabs.
It had been in the "narrow advantage for incumbent" column.
That's [...]
Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-8th District, will be presented with the sixth annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award on Monday in Cambridge Mass., by the former president's daughter Caroline Kennedy.
The award is jointly sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and Harvard's Institute [...]
You know when an issue hits Michelle Malkin's website, it's soon going to be all the talk in conservative political circles: Eagle Scout Versus SEIU.
So don't be surprised if you hear tongues wagging this week about the union that represents city workers in Allentown taking on a volunteer project [...]
The Democratic National Committee has booked air time on Cat Country 96.1 FM to take on Republican 15th District Congressman Charlie Dent for voting against the House Democrats' Health Care reform bill.
Here's a little sample from the script:
"When the U.S. [...]
What follows is the full transcript of a recent interview with U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, that appeared in and edited version as a point/counterpoint in Sunday's Morning Call
Q: You voted no on Congressional Democrats’ health care reform legislation last weekend. Why?
A: It cuts Medicare by nearly a half trillion [...]
What follows is the full transcript of an interview with 15th District Congressional candidate John Callahan on the topic of health care reform. Callahan, a member of the Democratic Party, is mayor of Bethlehem
Q: How would you have voted on the Medicare bill that passed the House this weekend?
I [...]
Democratic Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan was expected to join pro-health care reform protesters outside the local office of his his 15th Congressional District opponent Charlie Dent today to protest the Republican's vote Saturday against House Democrats' health care bill.
Callahan has not said whether he would [...]
The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America, the successor to President Obama's grass roots campaign operation hope to ratchet up the pressure on swing-district GOP Congressmen like Charlie Dent and Jim Gerlach over their no votes on House Democrats' health care bill.
The goal: put pressure on 32 Republican House members whose districts [...]
What do you mean you haven't seen it?
The National Republican Congressional Committee, playing off Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan's admission that he had campaign operatives check into his own background as GOP operatives did the same, has released a web video campaign ad mocking Callahan's political introspection.
Callahan, a member of the Democratic [...]
Argall, R-Schuylkill, says he's told national Republicans to "please keep looking for anotehr candidate" to put up against Holden, a 17-year House veteran.
Argall, a two-decade [...]
Local activists with the conservative "back to constitutional basics" 9/12 Tea Party movement joined right-wing darling Michelle Bachman in Washington D.C. today to protest Democratic health care reform plans.
Bachman, a Congresswoman from Minnesota, has exhorted activists to make a last stand against reform efforts now [...]
From Shira Toeplitz at Roll Call...
A top Republican Senator who once dismissed former Rep. Pat Toomey’s (R) chances of winning the Pennsylvania Senate race will host a fundraiser for him in late November.
After Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced last April that he was switching parties to run for [...]
From Shira Toeplitz at Roll Call...
A top Republican Senator who once dismissed former Rep. Pat Toomey’s (R) chances of winning the Pennsylvania Senate race will host a fundraiser for him in late November.
After Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced last April that he was switching parties to run for [...]
Lentz, a state House member from Delaware County, put out a statement today announcing that Rongione, a former campaign manager and communications director for Sestak, [...]
UPDATE: Thursday, Oct. 29
Steve Welch's campaign is in the process of revising the candidate's financial disclosure to reflect his accurate net worth, which is between $6 million and $23 million, according to his campaign. Welch campaign manager Brendan Benner said the candidate had accidentally checked on the disclosure indicating that [...]
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak needs a comb.
His wavy, graying hair has been through a hectic morning and the suburban Philadelphia lawmaker is racing toward his third interview of the day, this time with ABC News.
''Nobody under 40 carries a comb,'' he says. [...]
Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak turned up the heat in his U.S. Senate primary battle with Arlen Specter on Thursday, arguing that tightening poll numbers show the state's senior senator is a ''general electorate failure for the Democrats.''
In an recorded for The Morning Call's ''Politics As Usual'' podcast, Sestak [...]
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta is considering another challenge of U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-11th, according to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. It would be his third bid in eight years...
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, whose campaign committee is still $153,670 in debt from his 2008 losing effort to unseat U.S. Rep. [...]
Last month's presidential fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter in Philadelphia was billed as a $2.5 million event, or thereabouts. But with the filing of campaign finance reports last week comes evidence that it was more like a $1.9 million fundraiser. And even then, only $784,000 went to Specter, the reports [...]
The wife of Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey is pregnant with the couple's third child and is due in May, right when the former Lehigh Valley lawmaker finds out who he'd face in the general election.
Toomey, 47, and his wife, Kris, have two school-age children.
This from a blog entry from Kris [...]
Organizing for America, the group that took over President Barack Obama's grass roots campaign organization, is launching another of its health care reform phone banks.
This time it's students calling students, and Lafayette College is one of four Pennsylvania locations the group, under the aegis of of the Democratic National Committee, [...]
Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan raised an impressive $346,000 during his first three months as a congressional candidate while spending only $20,000. So who's contributing to the Democrat in the early going of his contest against Republican incumbent Charlie Dent?
The list is here for you to peruse. And if you're curious what he's spending [...]
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, trying to knock off a veteran Democratic incumbent senator in the primary, will get an endorsement Monday from somebody who succeeded in doing just that: Connecticut's Ned Lamont.
Lamont defeated Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary, largely by running against [...]
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak raised $758,000 in the third quarter, and has $4.7 million in the bank, his campaign announced today.
The haul is modest compared to the $1.6 that Sestak brought in between April and July. It puts him roughly $4 million behind rival U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the [...]
Republican Pat Toomey, who has raised $3 million-plus in less than six months as a Senate candidate, has burned through cash in the early stages of his race as he builds a campaign infrastructure.
In the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, Toomey spent a whopping $861,000, more than half of [...]
In 2004, it was Sen. Arlen Specter's opposition to Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork that his Senate rival used against him. This year, it's Specter's grilling of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings.
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak posted a video of Specter's hard questioning of Hill on the site therealspecter2010.com [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter raised $1.8 million during the third quarter of the year, a big haul that was aided significantly by President Obama's fundraising trip to Philadelphia last month.
The haul put Specter's total cash on hand at $8.7 million. His Democratic opponent Joe Sestak has yet to release his totals.
Despite [...]
Democrat John Callahan, challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent in the Lehigh Valley's 15th District, is off to a fast fundraising start, collecting about $345,000 in the three months that ended Sept. 30, according to his campaign.
Equally impressive is the figure his campaign says it has on hand: approximately $325,000.
The [...]
The lesson of the still early 2010 campaign season so far: don't use someone else's quote against your opponent. Particularly when it comes from the mouth of a political player who has yet to publicly weigh in on the race.
Hence, the predicament facing GOP gubernatorial hopeful U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, whose campaign [...]
Pa2010.com broke the newsFriday that retired Commonwealth Court judge Doris Smith-Ribner planned to run for the Democratic nomination for Senate...
A former Commonwealth Court judge has decided to seek the Democratic nomination for Senate, adding another face to one of the country’s most high-profile and contentious primaries.
Doris Smith-Ribner, who served [...]
Republicans Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey will trade help Tuesday, with the former Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful set to endorse Toomey in Philadelphia.
The news here has more to do with the fact that Romney is traveling to Pennsylvania three years ahead of the next election, the latest in a [...]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, looking to keep up the pressure against the so-called card check legislation, is pointing to internal polling showing that the bill is opposed by a majority of Pennsylvanians.
The July survey, released to The Morning Call in its entirety, shows that less than four in 10 [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter, writing in a op-ed published in the liberal Web site Huffington Post today, urges his colleagues to back a "robust public option."
As debate continues on much needed health care reform, I urge my Senate colleagues to support a robust public option plan. It's important that the President's ideas [...]
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak said today that he'd likely bow out of the Senate after two terms because he doesn't want to serve if he can't keep his current pace.
A shot at his elderly opponent, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter? Sestak insisted not.
"If someone else is there at a certain age, [...]
Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey raised more than $1.5 million during the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, his campaign said Wednesday, a figure that added to a $1.6 million fundraising haul during the second quarter.
The take is particularly impressive for Toomey because it came during the traditionally slow summer [...]
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, three months into his stint as lead sponsor of the bill to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy, will take to the House floor tonight.
Murphy has garnered two dozen additional co-sponsors for the legislation since he took over the lead from former Rep. Ellen [...]
Hounded relentlessly by Sen. Arlen Specter over missed votes in Congress, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak is going back on offense this week with a new Web site that plays up Specter's Republican past.
TheRealSpecter2010.com, due to go live tomorrow, will include a 96-second video that features Specter telling "Meet the Press" host [...]
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter still holds a sizable advantage over U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak in the Pennsylvania Democratic contest, a new poll shows. But for the first time since Quinnipiac has been surveying the race, Specter's support has dropped below 50 percent, a worrying sign for the five-term incumbent.
The [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter gave a tentative endorsement of the climate change bill unveiled today by U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer that will serve as the starting point for the chamber to produce legislation to tackle cuts in greenhouse gases.
Here's his statement, which lists a series of vague "considerations" [...]
U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski will have to look to his left after this weekend, when Lackawanna County Commissioner Corey O'Brien is expected to announce his candidacy for the 11th District congressional seat. Kanjorski, a 13-term Democratic incumbent, faced the most difficult race of his congressional career last cycle when he [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter, whose views toward the public health insurance option have evolved from opposition to emphatic support since his party switch in April, said he is disappointed by the Finance Committee vote against the plan today.
Tweeting his reaction to the 15-8 vote against including a public option in the [...]
Sen. Bob Casey today urged quick action on sanctions towards Iran, pushing a series of measures to allow state pension funds to divest from companies that do business with Iran and sanction foreign firms that export gas to the country.
"Iran will only cease its illicit nuclear program, end its support for [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter's push last week for more stimulus dollars for Amtrak has ignited a tit-for-tat in the Democratic Senate contest, with U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak calling out Specter for not backing a fuller stimulus plan to begin with in a letter to the Inquirer this week.
The backdrop is a [...]
Organizing for America, President Obama's grassroots organizing arm, plans to deliver 70,000 "declarations of support" for a health care overhaul to Sen. Arlen Specter's Allentown office today.
The 1:30 p.m. event will bring several Allentown residents supportive of Obama's health care proposal to the office of a senator who is firmly behind [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter sent this letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, hitting the paper for not giving him a chance to weigh in after being criticized by U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak for a story that ran Tuesday. Specter had followed up on a Sunday story by Paul Nussbaum detailing [...]
Bucks County Democrats have landed a pretty solid one-two punch for their annual Jefferson Dinner fundraiser. Think Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Donnie and Marie? Martin and Lewis?
Try Biden and Specter.
Vice President Joe Biden and longtime friend Sen. Arlen Specter, who famously took many Amtrak train rides together, will headline the Bucks [...]
Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey today joined a call for Iran to release three Americans who were detained in Iran in late July after crossing the border from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were hiking along the border when they crossed over into Iranian territory on [...]
Until yesterday, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak had kept his powder dry when asked about the White House's support of Sen. Arlen Specter, taking a diplomatic approach about the endorsement of his Democratic rival.
That's changed. Interviewed for a front-page New York Times story today about the administration's involvement in political races, Sestak [...]
U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, seeking to win over gays and bisexuals in advance of next year's Democratic Senate primary, urged a vote to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Philadelphia area congressman also criticized U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter for supporting the act [...]
Being in the minority can be a tough gig, depending on how you look at it. Chances for legislative accomplishments are few and far between -- unless, of course, you set your sights a tad lower.
Which brings us to a measure sponsored by U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent that honors [...]
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-6th, is asking for an audit of ACORN's use of federal funds over the past 10 years, keeping the pressure on the embattled anti-poverty community group.
Gerlach, also a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, sent the letter signed by 27 other Republicans Monday to the inspector general of the Department of [...]
Tom Fitzgerald at the Inquirer has a story today on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not backing down from a demand for a public health insurance option. Pelosi joined Philly-area lawmakers in Philadelphia today.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a visit to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital today that a government-run insurance [...]
President Obama's fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter last Tuesday came just days before news that the president was pushing for New York Gov. David Paterson to end his campaign for reelection. A lot of politics in just a few days, no doubt.
Hence the following exchange between reporters and White [...]
U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, fresh off his toughest reelection effort in his 25-year career, looks like he'll have another difficult run in 2010, this time on the political left.
Lackawanna County commissioner Corey O'Brien has filed paperwork to run against Kanjorski in the Democratic primary, but told CQ Politics that [...]
Organizing for America held a national phone banking event Thursday in support of President Barack Obama's health care reform efforts.
Among the Pennsylvania events held by the Democratic National Committee-affiliated group which took over for Obama's prodigious campaign organization, was a phone bank at the Bethlehem library.
The phone bank, billed as seniors [...]
Sen. Bob Casey had this to say last night about a possible troop increase in Afghanistan. His full statement is after the turn...
We ought to have a full debate in the Senate, in the House, and across America about troop levels. We are not there yet. There has been no [...]
Sen. Bob Casey, among only seven senators on Monday who opposed a block in housing funding to the community group ACORN, said he'll follow suit on votes today designed to bar the organization from other sources of federal money.
Sen. Mike Johannsof Nebraska will bring amendments to the floor today that would ban ACORN from getting federal [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter, fresh off a Tuesday fundraiser with President Obama in Philadelphia, said Obama's No. 2 will be back in the state Oct. 19 to raise cash for the five-term incumbent.
The vice president's stop in Pittsburgh will come toward the start of the final three-month reporting period of the [...]
More answers. That's what Sen. Arlen Specter said he needs before supporting a troop increase in Afghanistan.
"I'm not saying I would advocate withdrawal and I'm not saying I would advocate more troops," Specter said in a brief interview after an ambiguous floor statement Thursday, in which he laid out a [...]
This is interesting. Republican Steven Welch, who decided last weekend to bolt the 7th district congressional contest and enter the 6th, won't move into the district. His home, he argues, is several hundred feet from the district anyway, so why should he.
“I won’t be moving,” Steven Welch [...]
Former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan announced his candidacy for Congress this morning in Pennsylvania's 7th district. Here's his announcement release...
DREXEL HILL, PA – Pat Meehan, the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and former District Attorney of Delaware County, formally announced his candidacy for Congress today in Pennsylvania’s [...]
Former Sen. Rick Santorum told a roomful of Catholic leaders in Florida on Friday that he was "thinking about it," when challenged to run for president in 2012, Lifesitenews.com reported.
Not a huge surprised considering the former two-term senator from Pennsylvania is headed to Iowa in a few weeks....
Speaking to [...]
Republican Steven Welch jumped from the 7th District Congressional contest to the 6th on Saturday, clearing a path to the GOP nomination for former U.S. attorney Pat Meehan's in the 7th district.
Welch had been wooed by Republicans in recent weeks to make the change. Here's his statement...
“When I decided with [...]
Four buses of conservative "Tea Party" activists from the Lehigh Valley will leave Allentown to head to Washington D.C. early Saturday for a 9/12 rally.
The 9.12 Taxpayer March on Washington rally is expected to attract thousands of small government activists to Washington to call for lower taxes and less government. Marchers [...]
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter did something quite unlike him Thursday: he kicked a fellow member while the lawmaker was down.
In successive tweets this morning, Specter said U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, should be formally reprimanded for yelling "you lie" to President Obama during his speech before Congress Wednesday night.
"Rep. Wilson apologized [...]
Former U.S. attorney Pat Meehan is set to make a "major campaign announcement" Monday in three stops around the 7th congressional district, kicking off what is widely expected as a run to replace U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak.
The Republican will criss-cross the district, starting with a mid-morning announcement at his home [...]
U.S. Sen. Joe Sestak continues to make a play for the netroots Thursday, participating in a live-blog on www.senateguru.com at 5 p.m.
His campaign announcement:
Democratic Senate candidate, Congressman Joe Sestak will hold a liveblog session tomorrow at Senate Guru. Joe will take questions from visitors from across the web on a [...]
Hours after Sen. Arlen Specter sent out a note highlighting his "emphatic" support for a public health insurance option, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak sent out this statement. It's a race to the left in the Senate's Democratic primary...
In just the first day since its release, over 1,500 people from across [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter has ratcheted up his support for a public health insurance option, saying that he plans to tell President Obama "emphatically that we need the public option."
The comment, as quoted by WHYY, comes as Obama prepares to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress tonight [...]
While many conservatives blasted President Obama for his speech to students today, Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey praised the president. The move is the latest effort by Toomey to broaden his appeal in the state a full year before the general election.
Toomey's statement...
“Education is the cornerstone of our country’s future [...]
Iraq war veteran Manan Trivedi has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 6th Congressional District in a challenge to former Philadelphia Inquirer writer Doug Pike.
Trivedi, a primary care physician from Reading, was a Marine battalion surgeon from 2001 to 2003. He went on to serve as a health [...]
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen hosted a fundraiser for Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan in the city this week, hoping to boost the Democrat's campaign coffers in his bid to unseat Republican Charlie Dent.
The Tuesday breakfast event, which cost $200 to attend, was an important step for Democrats as [...]
Entrepreneur Steve Welch, running for the GOP nomination in the 7th Congressional District, has been encouraged to step across the street into Pennsylvania's 6th District and run there, PoliticsPA reports.
The GOP has high hopes for Welch, who founded a biotech company a decade ago that he sold a few years [...]
Pennsylvania's two senators are experiencing wildly different summers, with Sen. Arlen Specter's favorability rating at a 17-year low and Sen. Bob Casey more popular than ever, a new Franklin & Marshall poll shows.
The stakes for the two are as different as the poll trajectories, with Specter facing two potentially [...]
Bloomberg reports today that Teamsters president James Hoffa is holding off on backing U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in his reelection campaign against Joe Sestak, saying "it's time for him to stand up" for the Employee Free Choice Act.
Specter, of course, has flirted with labor's top legislative priority this year, [...]
From the Associated Press...
The Federal Election Commission says a conservative political group can use Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter's campaign donor list to inform givers of the senator's promise to return money to those upset by his switch.
The FCC voted 4-to-2 in favor of Club for Growth. The group used to [...]
Former Sen. Rick Santorum just put out this statement about Ted Kennedy...
“Passionate, tough, committed, persistent, theatrical and obstinate. That was Ted Kennedy.
If you were not on the very top of your game negotiating with Ted Kennedy and his loyal staff, the blood on the mat would undoubtedly be all yours. [...]
This and some other great shots of Sen. Ted Kennedy and family members campaigning in the Lehigh Valley over the years available in the Morning Call's photo page...
[...]With the "cash-for-clunkers" program over, the Department of Transportation put out a list of interesting statistics about the program today. Some tidbits...
-Pennsylvanians requested vouchers worth $138.7 million, ranking the state 19th in per-capita voucher expenditures. For the record, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota and North Dakota headed the list. More clunkers [...]
