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Area lawmakers face constituents angry over Trump agenda in town halls, on phone
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Last week when more than 100 commuters were injured in a New York train crash, many lawmakers in the region immediately thought of the 20 ...
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Republicans representing this region in Congress are looking forward to controlling the White House for the first time in eight years. As ...
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With GOP leading House, Senate and White House, Dems worry about oversight
With Republicans preparing to take control of the House, Senate and White House for the first time in a decade, Democrats fear the GOP is ...
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ListenSenate gives bipartisan tribute to Joe Biden
Vice President Joe Biden was honored by his former colleagues in the United States Senate Wednesday. The tribute from Republicans a ...
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Toomey shows independent streak?
The race for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat remains close. Democrat Katie McGinty is painting incumbent Republican Pat Toomey as a ...
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ListenGOP attempting to write its own election year playbook
Even before Donald Trump got in hot water for his remarks about a Mexican-American judge and suggesting President Obama might be complici ...
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ListenSome area GOP lawmakers embrace Trump, others keep him at arm’s length
It’s no secret that Donald Trump wasn’t the first choice — or even the second — of many Republicans to be the party& ...
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ListenNational Democrats target Toomey over Supreme Court vacancy
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is getting attacked in his re-election bid for helping his party block President Obama’s Su ...
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ListenFew congressional Republicans from region endorsing Trump; most prefer to stay mum
Republican leaders in Washington worry that it will be tough to win congressional races in Pennsylvania and New Jersey if Donald Trump wi ...
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ListenIn D.C., budget clashes worse than usual
Every year in Washington, the White House and lawmakers in Congress do a strange dance. Feel free to think of it as the budget tan ...
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ListenPresident’s executive orders on guns scaring away some moderate Republicans?
Republicans were still on their winter vacation when President Obama announced he was unilaterally tightening the nation’s backgrou ...
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