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Do you receive Medicaid and are able to work? You may be required to get a job in order to keep your benefits. Local state lawmakers are backing legis...

HARRISBURG — The State Senate has unanimously approved legislation that would enable local governments and school districts to discuss school security...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Ranking Member Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Chairman Susan Collins, R-Maine, celebrated the ...

HARRISBURG — State Rep. Martin Causer has introduced legislation to ensure what he called “fair and reasonable oversight” of the conventional oil and ...

Dr. M. Javed Akhtar from Bradford went to Capitol Hill with the Burma Task Force to plead for sanctions against Myanmar Army to stop ethnic cleansing ...

WASHINGTON — At least they're doing something, which is about the most one can say about Florida's proposed gun bill. But doing something and doing so...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate convened Tuesday in Harrisburg, and unanimously re-elected state Sen. Joe Scarnati, R-Brockway, as president pro ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson on Thursday voted in favor of a Fiscal Year 2018 continuing resolution, which funds the federal government at cu...

A state bill that would ban late-term abortions has the support of local lawmakers and an area pregnancy care center official. Republicans legislators...

Roy Moore is the Steve Bannon project in a nutshell. For the former Trump operative, the Alabama Senate candidate's tattered credibility is a feature,...

WASHINGTON —Pennsylvania’s U.S Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., announced the Senate passage of their bipartisan legislation, the Childr...

WASHINGTON — A future trivia question and historical footnote, the spectacular 10-day flameout of Anthony Scaramucci qualifies as the most entertainin...

WASHINGTON — In January 1988, in Ronald Reagan's final State of the Union address, he noisily dropped on a table next to the podium in the House chamb...

State lawmakers are continuing to hash out a revenue plan that would support a nearly $32 billion budget, with one local representative laying the bla...

If the Republican attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare ultimately fails, it will be a lesson in the wages of political bad faith. The current path ...

Leaders are bashing the Senate Republican’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, a plan they say denies health care to millions of people, cuts Me...

A Democratic state representative from southern Pennsylvania sent out a press release Tuesday questioning the ethics of state Senate President Pro Tem...

The Pennsylvania State Senate and the House of Representatives declared April 23-30 as “Conservation District Week.” The dates coincide with Earth Day...

HARRISBURG — A letter from 32 Pennsylvania Senators expressing strong support for Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation has been sent to U.S. Senator Pat ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's coming confirmation of Neil Gorsuch will improve the Supreme Court, and Democrats' incontinent opposition to him will inadv...