From OnPolitics:
Sen. Evan Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who announced today he will not seek a third term this year, said “the people’s business is not getting done” in Congress as he explained why he is retiring.
“There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress,” Bayh said as he made the formal announcement in Indianapolis. […]

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Meet John J. McClure , 35, of Lancaster. He said today he intends to seek the Democratic nomination for the 16th Congressional District seat in 2010. He is the second member of his party to enter the race, a move that sets the stage for the first congressional primary contest for the Democrats since […]

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In a statement, the Democratic candidate for the 16th Congressional District breaks with President Barack Obama over his decision to send 30,000 more soldiers to the country. But she also couches her opposition by saying, “I assume President Obama knows more than the rest of us and that he weighed his decision carefully. We must […]

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Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts, who will seek his eighth term in Congress next year, is raising more money than his challenger and has nearly five times as much campaign cash in the bank, finance reports show. But Democrat Lois Herr has raked in twice as much money from individual donors as Pitts, which she […]

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The Lancaster County Democratic Committee will honor city Mayor Rick Gray with the Janice Stork and Russ Hay “Good Government Award” during a ceremony in Akron on Wednesday. “The award is being presented to Mayor Gray for excellence in public service and his commitment to good government during his first term as Mayor of Lancaster […]

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Here’s the site. The Republican lawmaker is already on YouTube. What’s next? Twitter? Maybe.

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Arlen Specter goes on Howard Stern. Apparently Stern is a “long-time admirer” of the Republican U.S. senator, according to Politico’s Glenn Thrush. The talk-show host said he’s going to send a check and help get him re-elected, and that his audience votes in a block so “they’ll all help him out,” according to this […]

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… doesn’t mean the National Republican Congressional Committee isn’t out to get you.
So this is what politics has come to: The NRCC has been sending out video “trackers” to ask provocative questions of Democratic members of Congress — in hopes of catching that “macaca” moment meant to be replayed on the Internet and possibly wound […]

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Railing against the $1.1 billion line item in the stimulus package he says would “prepare the country for socialized medicine,” Lancaster County’s representative in the U.S. House said: “Using this so-called stimulus bill to move the country towards the agenda of the left is wrong. First the bailout. Now the stimulus. Millions of dollars in […]

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Lancaster County’s representative in the U.S. House, Republican Rep. Joe Pitts, continues his sparring match with city Mayor Rick Gray, a Democrat who took issue with the lawmaker’s reasons for opposing the federal stimulus proposal.
This is getting interesting. And fun. Here is Pitts’ letter to the Intell:
NEA funding won’t aid economy
TO THE EDITOR:
There was not […]

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