Pennsylvania Member of Congress Tracking Report (MoCTrack)
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Member of Congress Tracking Report for the week ending September 15, 2019. Both houses are back in session after the LONG recess and we have lots of votes to run down. If you want to read the full report in its old format, visit this link. MoCTrack also has at-a-glance vote-trackers for all of our legislators, newly updated for the first time since the last votes in July. Visit here to see a running tally of how our 18 PA House members voted, and here for our two Senators. Each sheet has links that bring you to short explainers for all votes tracked.
VOTES – the House concentrated on environmental issues while the Senate took on confirmations.
We have Twitter Action sections that cover gun sense legislation, a push to renew the Violence Against Women Act, and some tweets of the week. Our senators were fairly quiet traditional media this week, with Senator Casey discussing the conflict in Kashmir, and Senator Toomey pushing his still MIA background check bill (he talks about it a lot, but no one we can find has seen the text).
OTHER SECTIONS
This week we have a new guest piece from new contributor Andrea Wittchen of iSpring, who has provided us with an explanation of the new Toomey-sponsored bill to remove ethanol from our fuel mix – it’s fascinating, and the conclusions may not be what you expect. Community Corner is back, with segments on student debt, voter discrimination, clean energy and veterans’ affairs. And for our Call to Action segment, we provide four steps you should take to make sure you have everything squared away for Election Day (in time to fix any problems you might uncover).
PA-01
There wasn’t a whole lot of extra Fitzpatrick coverage this week, but we do have his separate report for PA-01, with his in the media segment… and it includes a transcription of a radio interview Fitzpatrick did that a MoCTrack reader was nice enough to transcribe for us!
These folks work for US!
Read MoCTrack to keep up on what they are doing in your name.
VOTES – the House concentrated on environmental issues while the Senate took on confirmations.
- The House passed three separate bills to implement drilling moratoria; one dealt with protecting the ANWR, while the other pair addressed coastal waters
- Other environmental issues that received votes in the House were a reauthorization of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act and a new initiative to implement energy-saving information technology measures.
- This Senate took on a cluster of bureaucratic confirmations. We have a new Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, director of the Office of Personnel Management and Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families.
- The trio of judges we recapped this week were less burdened with controversy than previous Trump Administration judges… including a unanimously confirmed judge for here in Pennsylvania.
We have Twitter Action sections that cover gun sense legislation, a push to renew the Violence Against Women Act, and some tweets of the week. Our senators were fairly quiet traditional media this week, with Senator Casey discussing the conflict in Kashmir, and Senator Toomey pushing his still MIA background check bill (he talks about it a lot, but no one we can find has seen the text).
OTHER SECTIONS
This week we have a new guest piece from new contributor Andrea Wittchen of iSpring, who has provided us with an explanation of the new Toomey-sponsored bill to remove ethanol from our fuel mix – it’s fascinating, and the conclusions may not be what you expect. Community Corner is back, with segments on student debt, voter discrimination, clean energy and veterans’ affairs. And for our Call to Action segment, we provide four steps you should take to make sure you have everything squared away for Election Day (in time to fix any problems you might uncover).
PA-01
There wasn’t a whole lot of extra Fitzpatrick coverage this week, but we do have his separate report for PA-01, with his in the media segment… and it includes a transcription of a radio interview Fitzpatrick did that a MoCTrack reader was nice enough to transcribe for us!
These folks work for US!
Read MoCTrack to keep up on what they are doing in your name.
This is where we will keep our archive of older, previous weeks' MoCTrack Reports from the 116th Congress.
