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On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...

(Editor’s note: The Era sat down with Sen. Cris Dush last week and spoke about issues impacting the 25th District. The second of two, this story focus...

There’s nothing that ails Joe Biden’s agenda, we are supposed to believe, that ending the filibuster wouldn’t fix. President Joe Biden showed a little...

There’s nothing that ails Joe Biden’s agenda, we are supposed to believe, that ending the filibuster wouldn’t fix. President Joe Biden showed a little...

(Editor’s note: The Era sat down with Sen. Cris Dush last week and spoke about issues impacting the 25th District. The first of two, this story focuse...

Pennsylvania is inching closer to letting voters decide whether the candidate for lieutenant governor should be chosen in statewide primary voting, as...

So it turns out that the whole time Sleepy Joe Biden was hiding in the basement, he was working on a plan to render congressional Republicans irreleva...

The Senate has passed the American Rescue Plan, and Pennsylvania’s senators are deeply divided on the bill. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is in favor of the mea...

Jake Corman, the Republican president pro tempore of the state Senate, must be a suspicious guy. Of the untold number of Pennsylvanians who have the e...

Two Pennsylvania senators — Dan Laughlin, a Republican from Erie, and Sharif Street, a Philadelphia Democrat — are not typically on the same side of a...

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman fashions himself as a tough guy, a bare-knuckled fighter for the causes he supports, a straight-talker, a contrarian among pol...

As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...

It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, e...

As the U.S. Senate pressed through its final days of the second impeachment trial of America’s 45th president, Donald Trump, it is important that we r...

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...

The announcement by two moderate Republican senators — Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — that they will not seek re-election is not...

Sen. Ted Cruz seems to have a penchant for improbable causes. If he’s not trying to audit the presidential election results, he’s seeking to amend the...

The 46th president of the United States of America was inaugurated Wednesday, and called for unity for the nation. President Joe Biden and Vice Presid...

Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to the post of assistant secretary of health at t...

Among the amazing scenes in our Capitol during the failed insurrection of Jan. 6, few were more remarkable than a brief speech by Sen. Kelly Loeffler,...