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Facing its deadline in a few short weeks, select lawmakers on a new bipartisan, House-Senate committee tasked with negotiating a year-long payroll tax cut for American workers, met publicly for the first time Tuesday, and its Pennsylvania members laid out...

Happy New Year blog readers and welcome to our redesigned Pennsylvania Ave. To the rest of the world 2012 began two days ago, but in the political world it begins today in Iowa. Tonight officially kicks off 2012 voting, inching us closer to a Republican...

GAYLORD — U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, was in Washington this week where Congress is trying to hash out an agreement on tax policy before the end of the year. From his office in Washington, D.C., Benishek spoke to the Gaylord Herald...

Local area U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent, a Republican, and Allyson Schwartz, a Democrat, joined just 38 House members Wednesday night in support of a bipartisan budget modeled on the plan developed by a presidential commission chaired by former U.S. Sen....

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state House enters its final two days of voting sessions for the year today with essentially two tasks before it: To possibly pass a capital budget bill and to rustle up the votes to......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Our countdown of the year's top political stories continues this morning with a geography lesson. Or, more specifically, a lesson about the inherently political nature of mapmaking in Pennsylvania. To quickly...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. In what must surely be an object lesson in the importance of carefully picking your friends, we give you the tale of one Foster Friess, the deep-pocketed donor who's been bankrolling Our Rick's surprisingly enduring......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The GOP presidential campaign officially arrives in Pennsylvania this weekend along with the attendant media circus, courtesy of the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. In case you don't know what this is, the...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If you've spent any time moving through Pennsylvania's political circles, particularly Republican ones in the Lehigh Valley, then there's a pretty good chance you met Charles Snelling more than once. Loud, gregarious...

(Reuters) - Republicans walked out of budget talks on Thursday, setting up a showdown between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over how to extend U.S. borrowing and avoid a looming debt default. Vice President Joe Biden and a handful...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. And right on time, the reaction to the Marcellus shale impact fee kicked out of the House Finance Committee earlier this week is starting to filter in. Local officials are particularly honked off at language......

Nearly every Pennsylvania lawmaker in the U.S. House Tuesday night bucked the White House's call for a clean debt limit increase, including the state's three Blue Dog Democrats Tim Holden, Jason Altmire and Mark Critz. The only Keystone Democrats to......