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Like the Afghan Adjustment Act that we lament, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act also fell out of the Senate’s $1.7 trilli...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For close to two years, John Fetterman was a political celebrity starring in one of the nation’s most closely watched — and well fu...

HARRISBURG — When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylv...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing a dramatically different political landscape than Republicans had expected, with the possibility of Democrats in control of ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and a group of Senate Republicans is demanding an explanation from the Justice Department and FBI for the...

WASHINGTON — It’s been seven years since laws passed to forbid school districts from “passing the trash” — allowing educators accused of sexual miscon...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As if the national spotlight on the race wasn’t bright enough, the stakes of the U.S. Senate contest in Pennsylvania were raised a ...

John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnabl...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Sens. Pat Toomey and Kyrsten Sinema together have introduced legislation that they say would simplify small personal purchases, lik...

DENVER (TNS) — When Democrats candidly assess the party’s prospects for November, their responses range from bad to awful to curled up and whimpering ...

In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Even so, I’m willing to go on record as saying peo...

WASHINGTON — Thursday, U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey, D-PA, led a bipartisan group of Senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Depart...

Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party. In 2017, when Republica...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Abortion rights activists who staged a protest outside the Harrisburg office of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Tuesday quickly found their ...

Maybe I’ve been fooled, but my inclination is to say confirm her. Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice because, during Senate hear...

Members of Congress have shown enormous compassion for the besieged nation of Ukraine, approving more than $13 billion in aid this month. Since the Ru...

This much is certain: America’s political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now und...

HARRISBURG — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of electi...

After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...

Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...