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Pennsylvania ends U.S. Senate recount after Casey concession
Nov 22, 2024 · Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt has told counties to end their Senate race recounts after U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) conceded to Republican Dave McCormick. “Continuing the recount would not be in the best interest of taxpayers,” Schmidt said in a statement on Friday. The recount was ...
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Nov 22, 2024 · Trump taps Project 2025 co-author to lead White House budget office BY: Jennifer Shutt - November 22, 2024 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday invited Russell Vought to once again run the White House budget office, though it wasn’t entirely clear how the role will mesh with the government staffing and funding cuts envisioned by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Pennsylvania General Assembly session draws to a close with …
Oct 23, 2024 · “That said, there is still time to work on critical legislation, including providing survivors of child sex abuse an opportunity to seek justice, ensuring protections from discrimination, a long-overdue cost of living increase to retired public servants, adequately funding our mass transit systems and helping counties count votes quickly and accurately with pre-canvassing, in addition to the ...
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Casey and McCormick …
Nov 13, 2024 · Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said Wednesday that the unofficial vote count for the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick is within the 0.5% margin, which means the …
Casey hits new personal record in Q3 fundraising, doubling …
Oct 16, 2024 · Campaigns & Elections; Election 2024; Casey hits new personal record in Q3 fundraising, doubling McCormick’s haul The candidates for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat entered October with nearly the same amount of cash on hand.
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Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race between Casey and McCormick …
Nov 6, 2024 · The race between Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and GOP opponent Dave McCormick remained too close to call on Wednesday morning. Casey, who is seeking a fourth term in the Senate faced the well-heeled McCormick, who had Donald Trump’s endorsement. McCormick contributed more than $4 million of his own money to his campaign.
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Jun 28, 2024 · Farm bill text released in U.S. House, setting up fight with Senate BY: Ariana Figueroa - May 18, 2024 The chair of the committee, GOP Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson of Pennsylvania, said in a statement that the bill, which will set farm, nutrition, commodity and conservation policy for the next five years, is a “product of extensive feedback from stakeholders and all Members of the House, and ...
Here’s what’s still outstanding in Pennsylvania’s budget
Oct 20, 2023 · A spokesperson for House Majority Leader Matt Bradford (D-Montgomery) said Democrats had earlier asked Senate Republicans to take that approach, focusing on bipartisan, non-controversial issues first but had been unsuccessful since the House passed the spending plan back in July.