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“Many don’t know our state budget gets 40% of its funding from Washington,” said Pennsylvania House Speaker Joanna McClinton.
“Families and folks with disabilities have a difficult time connecting with resources or knowing what’s available,” said Bucks County State Rep.Tim Brennan.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA's Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
Opinion
As energy demands increase in the commonwealth, the governor has called on PJM to clear a huge backlog of clean energy projects.
Over 100 national organizations are joining together to plan a mass mobilization of peaceful protestors in big cities around the country.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown's Steve Cickay.
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan, author of “American Carnage, An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” writes about the dangers our predator in chief poses to American democracy.
Education
These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed, "dark money" conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates.
The event, sponsored by The Braver Angels of Southeast Pennsylvania and League of Women Voters of Bucks County, is to promote dialogue and strengthen community relationships.
“The executive order is not law and cannot change existing law. The orders even say on them they do not have the force of law,” said Kristina Moon, a senior attorney at the Education Law Center.
The right-wing law firm Thomas More Society, along with their plaintiffs which include South Side Area School District and Knoch School District, and Republican State Representatives Barbara Gleim and Aaron Bernstine, want to make discrimination OK again in the commonwealth.
The once-powerful group’s internal turmoil and diminishing size and status may be signs that the school privatization movement is now a fully right-wing enterprise.
Elections
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“I reached out to them and said we have to know how you did it,” Senator-elect James Malone’s campaign manager said.
But advocates argue reforms ought to be focused on expanding the electorate and turnout, not making it more difficult to vote.
“At a time when the very foundations of our democracy are being challenged, it’s more important now than ever that we elect people who are dedicated to upholding the rule of law,” said Bucks County Democratic Committee Chair Steve Santarsiero.
“Without poll workers, we cannot have elections. They are the foundation of our election system,” Jeff Greenburg, a senior adviser on election administration for the Committee of Seventy, told Votebeat.
The state’s top election official calls on the Legislature to update rules, and to give local administrators a voice.
Recent Votes:
- H.R. 997: National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 March 31, 2025Vote: Passed 385/0 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.R. 517: Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act March 31, 2025Vote: Passed 388/0 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.R. 1048: DETERRENT Act March 27, 2025Vote: Passed 241/169 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.Amdt. 15 (Tlaib) to H.R. 1048: To amend the definition of "Investment of Concern" to include any entity that the Secretary of State determines consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitates and enables state violence and repression, war and occupati March 27, 2025Vote: Failed 4/404 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: No
