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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Snarlin’ Arlen in an op-ed in this morning’s Washington Post:
“In politics,” John Kennedy used to say, “nobody gets everything, nobody gets nothing and everybody gets something.” My colleagues and I have tried to balance the concerns of both left and right with the need to act quickly for the sake of our country. The moderates’ […]

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In a letter published in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, hizzoner had this to say about the Republican congressman’s reasons for opposing the economic stimulus act:
I was dismayed to read Rep. Joe Pitts’ defense of his voting against the economic stimulus act (Intell, Feb. 2). I am concerned that his rationale for opposition shows a lack […]

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The entire list of U.S. lawmakers who have “sworn off pork,” according to the ultraconservative Club for Growth:
HOUSE
John Boehner(R-OH-08)
Eric Cantor (R-VA-07)
John Campbell (R-CA-48)
Devin Nunes (R-CA-21)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ-06)
Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA-03)
John Kline (R-MN-02)
Mike McCaul (R-TX-10)
Walter Jones (R-NC-03)
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX-05)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10)
Virginia Foxx (R-NC-05)
Dan Burton (R-IN-05)
Tom Price (R-GA-06)
John Shadegg (R-AZ-03)
Paul Ryan (R-WI-01)
Joe Pitts (R-PA-16)
Tom McClintock (CA-04)
SENATE
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Tom […]

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