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Forging the Future: PA Lawmakers Launch Effort to Reclaim Steelmaking Dominance

Forging the Future: PA Lawmakers Launch Effort to Reclaim Steelmaking Dominance

Harrisburg, PA, July 17, 2025 – State Senators Nick Pisciottano (D-Allegheny) and Patty Kim (D-Dauphin), along with State Representatives David Madsen (D-Dauphin), John Inglis (D-Allegheny), and Nate Davidson (D-Cumberland, Dauphin), today announced the introduction of companion legislation designed to strengthen Pennsylvania’s steel industry, protect and create jobs, and reestablish the Commonwealth’s leadership in American manufacturing.

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Comitta, Kane Secure Funding for Good Fellowship Ambulance

Comitta, Kane Secure Funding for Good Fellowship Ambulance

West Chester, PA – July 7, 2025 – Good Fellowship Ambulance and EMS Training Institute, an emergency medical provider that covers ten municipalities in the West Chester area, is getting a new EMS-capable, all-terrain utility vehicles (UTV) thanks to grant funding...

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Senator Santarsiero Slams SNAP Benefit Cuts

Senator Santarsiero Slams SNAP Benefit Cuts

BUCKS COUNTY – July 2, 2025 – State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) issued the following statement today in response to the likely impact of cuts to SNAP benefits in the Congressional Budget & Reconciliation Package (“Big Beautiful Bill”): “Thirty-five years...

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Senate Democrats Continue to Sound Alarm on Catastrophic Impacts of Trump’s Reconciliation Bill on Healthcare, Hospitals, and Food Access Across Pennsylvania

Senate Democrats Continue to Sound Alarm on Catastrophic Impacts of Trump’s Reconciliation Bill on Healthcare, Hospitals, and Food Access Across Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, PA − June 30, 2025 − On Monday, June 30, members of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus gathered in the East Wing Rotunda to draw attention to the urgency of stopping Trump’s domestic policy bill from becoming law. In its current form, the bill poses an existential threat to Medicaid, SNAP, and rural hospitals across Pennsylvania.

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ALLENTOWN, PA – June 26, 2025 − Sen. Nick Miller (D-Lehigh-Northampton) announces that beginning on June 30, the Streamlining Permits for Economic Expansion and Development (SPEED) program to accelerate the Commonwealth’s permitting, licensing, certification...

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Senate Passes Lifesaving, Bipartisan Breast Cancer Imaging Legislation

Senate Passes Lifesaving, Bipartisan Breast Cancer Imaging Legislation

HARRISBURG – June 24, 2025 − With broad bipartisan support, the Senate today approved legislation to strengthen Pennsylvania’s no-cost breast cancer screening law by ensuring diagnostic imaging is fully covered, removing financial barriers for patients. Sponsored by Sen. Frank Farry (R-6) and Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R-39), Senate Bill 88 builds on the success of Act 1 of 2023, which provided no-cost preventive screenings for those at high risk.

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