Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA) has shifted positions on various issues since being elected to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th District in its 2018 special election following the resignation of its former Republican representative Tim Murphy.
“Republicans are increasingly mystified by their own grass roots, an electorate they thought they knew, and distressed that a wave of turnover in their ranks could fundamentally change the character of Congress.”
Rep. Tim Murphy announced his retirement from Congress on Wednesday after reports emerged that he urged a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion.
During Thursday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA) touted mental health reforms signed into law by President Obama last week. Transcript as Follows: “This picture means so much to me. I keep it on my desk in my congressional office.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) urged Congress Tuesday to overhaul the mental healthcare system in the United States as a way to prevent mass shootings.
Two high-level Republican lawmakers had seen a video showing a Planned Parenthood executive discussing what the organization charges researchers from organs harvested from aborted babies–and were aware of it weeks before it caused an online furor.
Republican House members are calling on President Obama to work with Congress to pass immigration reform instead of moving forward with his expected executive amnesty. In a letter to Obama dated Tuesday, nearly three dozen Republicans lawmakers — led by Rep.
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) continued his calls for a 21-day quarantine of all Ebola health workers returning to the United States in the wake of New York City receiving its first Ebola case. In an October 16 letter to President
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) described the new travel restrictions the Obama administration announced for travelers originating in Ebola-stricken countries as “nothing of the sort.” “With no vaccine or cure, we are facing down a disease for
On “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, said the Obama administration is in danger of causing public panic with misstatements. Murphy, a psychologist said, “My background is
Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee expressed shock at the Obama administration’s decision to tap a political operative with no health background as his so-called Ebola czar. “This appointment is both shocking and frankly tone deaf to
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee criticized the Center for Disease Control for making “monitoring fevers and relying on people self-reporting” as the crux of their strategy for combatting the
Thursday at a congressional subcommittee hearing on Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden was asked to respond to a claim he had allegedly made that a travel ban would hurt “fledgling democracies” and therefore hurt
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican lawmakers left a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the ongoing Ebola outbreak reiterating calls for travel restrictions and expressing concern with the amount of leadership on the matter to date.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) refused to definitively answer whether someone who does not have a fever can still transmit Ebola. On Thursday, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,
With Americans on high alert after a second nurse has been confirmed to have contracted Ebola — and flown on a commercial plane a day before she reported symptoms — lawmakers will be back in Washington for a hearing on
House Republicans have called for an oversight hearing on Ebola after Thomas Eric Duncan, traveling from Liberia, brought the disease to Dallas, Texas. According to a press release, the hearing will be held by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Once again American taxpayers are being soaked by the Obama administration’s quest for failed green energy projects. On Friday, officials announced that they will lose $139 million loaned to beleaguered electric car maker Fisker Automotive. Unfortunately, the administration doesn’t seem to
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has launched an investigation into the Obama administration’s decision to delay the implementation of parts of Obamacare until after the 2014 midterm elections. Committee leaders fired off letters to administration officials, including Department of
Following Seung-Hui Cho’s 2007 shooting spree at Virginia Tech, President George W. Bush put forth mental health proposals aimed at identifying and treating people who might have the propensity for such heinous crimes–people like Adam Lanza. However, Bush’s proposals were
Back in September, we noted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) were pushing a new scheme under which new cars sold in the U.S. would be given a letter grade assessing their “greenness,” prominently displayed
What is it with the League of Woman’s Voters and the Pledge of Allegiance? For the second time in less than a week a congressional debate began with a request for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and for