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Republicans are running nonstop commercials in NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania) to justify the BBBill.
Republicans, or somebody pro-Republican, is running ads that are trying to tell us Rep. Rob Bresnahan voting for the Big Boondoggle Bill was good actually. They’re trying to advance this false narrative that denying healthcare insurance coverage for some healthy young men and rarely use their healthcare is somehow going to make it better for disabled people.
The pressure on elected officials about vaccines must come from constituents in their districts.
I believe the only answer here is that the congresspeople and senators all get unimaginable pressure.
Because of course Rob Bresnahan bought his own private helicopter.
But what does he know about the transportation the rest of us use I wonder?
Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania noted to benefit with defense stocks from a war with Iran.
It’s ironic because he campaigned on stopping Congress from trading stocks, and introduced legislation to that effect in May 2025, but he’s continually in a position to be criticized for doing it himself.
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
The right-wing opposition to proxy voting is the same old opposition to remote anything.
There’s a bill in Congress to allow proxy voting for representatives with new babies. Mike Johsnon has gone so far as to just shut down everything for the week just to stop this bill, because there are Republicans who support it.
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez voting for the SAVE ACT to subjugate women is not surprising.
I read that Marie Gluesenkamp Perez attends a far right wing prayer group in congress and was even trying to recruit others into it.
Democratic politicians to hold shadow hearing on Justice Dept. dropping corruption charges against Eric Adams.
I’m all for shadow government — bring it all over this shitshow.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s Tele Town Hall, PA-08
The tele town hall recording is available on Facebook
Rob Bresnahan’s comms director defamed constituents in order to make excuses for not having a public town hall in the district.
Indivisible’s Ezra Levin has pointed out that Republicans will do tele town halls because then they can tightly control who can speak. So of course: U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has announced he’s holding a “Telephone Town Hall”
Rob Bresnahan is being called on the carpet by constituents on Medicaid vote.
I sent him a postcard with a jellyfish, and I have more jellyfish postcards reserved just for him.
When it’s Family, it’s nepotism.
NBC News – Secretive Christian group at heart of D.C. politics ready for its close-up in Netflix docuseries “The Family” puts the spotlight on the enigmatic Fellowship Foundation, the Christian group behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Aug. 9, 2019 By Ethan Sacks While the annual event is purportedly hosted by members of Congress, it is actually […]
Politicians are frightened into silence about violence that could be prevented by speaking up against the violence.
Republican politicians might be bullied into silence more than Democrats, but when the massacres start, tyrannical genocidaires do tend to go after moderates among their own first.
Trump administration attempts to impound appropriations under the responsibility of Congress.
The odd memo out of the White House that started freezing access to Medicaid portals and threatened to shut down daycares is some pretty wild overreach…
Elected representatives care about what their constituents say.
No matter the issue, you are always best off contacting your own elected representatives.
Mike Johnson immediately introduces misinformation into the new Congress.
Mike Johnson read some kind of supposedly inspirational prayer upon being elected House speaker, but he inappropriately tried to claim that it was written by Thomas Jefferson, the historic figure so notoriously non-religious that he actually made a version of The Holy Bible that omitted all the miracles…
Scuttlebutt is that the new Congress is hot to try the SAVE Act again.
LWVUS Opposes SAVE Act 5/16/2024 LWVUS joined coalition partners to oppose the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require citizenship documentation to cast a ballot, despite the fact that voters in every state are already required to affirm or verify their citizenship status when registering to vote. My letter to senators and congressperson: Voters […]
Letters to reps.
each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect
Ron Desantis sure seems anti-vax, since he chose Joe Ladapo.
Ron Desantis doesn’t have to keep Joe Ladapo as the Florida surgeon general.
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for Medicare patients.
Telehealth service should be a permanent option for all patients, and covered by all insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid.