News
Scrapped projects include relocating flood-damaged homes in Pennsylvania, protecting businesses from stormwater in North Carolina, and safeguarding water supply lines in Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley.
POWER Interfaith Bucks and Children First PA are hosting the event Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Bristol Township School Administration Building.
The American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Project and several other allied groups said in a statement that the way ICE deported children who are U.S. citizens and their mothers is a “shocking — although increasingly common — abuse of power.”
The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn't only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries. It helped mark the end of a singular era of protest music.
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
Opinion
Time and again, the opposition in Mussolini's Italy failed to concertedly oppose the fascists’ attacks on democratic norms and institutions. Then it was too late.
Appropriating at least $100 million in the state budget would pay for evidenced-based literacy curricula in every district and structured literacy training for teachers.
It’s time to tell Sheriff Harran that we will not let Bucks County become a playground for ICE.
In 2023 alone, more than 158,000 Pennsylvania families benefited from these programs, saving more than $267 million on clean energy investments that provide long-term savings.
Wells Fargo recently published a step-by-step guide to postal privatization. To attract private buyers, the bank’s investment analysts recommend raising USPS package rates by as much as 140 percent.
Education
Appropriating at least $100 million in the state budget would pay for evidenced-based literacy curricula in every district and structured literacy training for teachers.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the ACLU, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights.
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber has called Trump’s latest moves “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”.
And here's how you can be part of the solution.
Elections
It is the latest example of the DOJ dropping or withdrawing from a voting rights case begun under former President Joe Biden.
This bill will disenfranchise millions of voters, especially rural voters, voters of color, and married women who have chosen to change their last names, as numerous nonpartisan organizations have pointed out. But for Fitzpatrick it just didn’t matter.
The first round of lawsuits all cite the plain text of Article 1, which gives the president no power to regulate elections.
“The reason I win tough races is simple – I listen to people and I fight for them,” Harvie said.
In her new role as a party leader, Jane Kleeb is organizing Democrats to go on the offensive.
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.
Recent Votes:
- H.R. 3001: To advance commonsense priorities. April 24, 2025Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA1] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Appropriations, and 19 other committees which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA1] is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick […]
- H.R. 3000: To address the worsening long-term care workforce crisis and increase access to and affordability of long-term care. April 24, 2025Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA1] This bill was referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and House Committee on Energy and Commerce which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration. 1 cosponsor is on those committees.
- H.R. 22: SAVE Act April 10, 2025Vote: Passed 220/208 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 22: SAVE Act April 10, 2025Vote: Failed 211/215 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Nay
