Congressman Kanjorski, Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, appeared on MSNBC to discuss life settlements. He held a Subcommittee hearing on this issue on September 24, 2009. Life settlements offer individuals the opportunity to sell their existing life insurance contracts and collect a cash disbursement considerably [...]
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Kanjorski Discusses Life Settlements on MSNBC
Friday, October 30th, 2009Politically Uncorrected: Pennsyvlania’s Churchillian Problem
Friday, October 30th, 2009Let’s be frank. Pennsylvania’s long running dilemma about selecting judges is here for the duration. It’s been around a long time and it’s not going away soon.
PoliticsPA’s Up & Down: 10/30 Edition
Friday, October 30th, 2009In this week’s Up & Down, a new poll shows Pa.’s Senate race getting tighter, John Murtha is under investigation (again), and we tell you what Rep. Jason Altmire and Tommy Chong have in common.
Murtha, others under ethics investigtion
Friday, October 30th, 2009Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a former Capitol Hill aide.
Carl Romanelli: Twice a loser in Pa. 2006 Senate race
Friday, October 30th, 2009Carl Romanelli, a divorced father of two grown sons from Wilkes-Barre, knew that as the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006, he’d have a hard time beating the big boys in the race: Republican incumbent Rick Santorum and Democrat Bob Casey. But he hoped to focus on his issues: an end to the Iraq war, health insurance, the rights of women and gays.
Pa. takes another shot at tolls for I-80
Friday, October 30th, 2009Pennsylvania Turnpike and highway officials late yesterday filed a new application to install tolls on I-80, setting the stage for a renewed fight over how to fund transportation projects in the state.
Candidates for city mayor finish debates
Friday, October 30th, 2009The two independents in the Pittsburgh mayoral race took their final swings at Mayor Luke Ravenstahl yesterday, repeating the complaints about political influence, neighborhood priorities and crime that have defined their bids to unseat the three-year incumbent.
Buchanan resigns as U.S. Attorney (to take on Altmire?)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, announced today that she plans to step down, effective Nov. 16.
Ms. Buchanan has served in the post since September 2001, when she was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A news release from her office did not state [...]
Once a critic, Hatch will now host a fundraiser for Toomey
Thursday, October 29th, 2009“I don’t think there is anybody in the world who believes he can get elected senator there.”
In April, that’s what conservative Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told POLITICO about former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey’s chances in a then-hypothetical Pennsylvania Senate race. Now, it seems, Hatch has changed his tune.
According to Roll Call, Hatch with [...]
Attorney general looking into Pennsylvania Turnpike
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The Pennsylvania attorney general is investigating the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and a number of former employees spent several hours in front of a Pittsburgh-based grand jury earlier this year, discussing political influence inside the commission.
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