Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, the airline pilot credited with “the Miracle on the Hudson,” is taking aim at an amendment offered by Rep. Shuster that critics claim would scale back aviation safety legislation. Shuster says that his amendment is in keeping with the goals of President Obama’s administration to make regulation more efficient, and won’t impact safety precautions already in place.

Toomey wants to create a Constitutional Amendment which would make it illegal for the budget to spend more than its revenue, and spending would be capped at 18 percent of the GDP. The entire Senate GOP Congress is said to be on board.

The PA Democratic party is having some fun with an apparent flub by U.S. Rep. Tom Marino. Dem Spokesman Mark Nicastre sent the following email to Marino’s press office (and thoughtfully cc’ed the entire PA press corps).

Cornett’s move gained symbolic importance when the Governor said the bus “represents everything wrong with state government – it’s outdated, inefficient and broken down,” a clear criticism of the Rendell administration.

A few members of the GOP PA Delegation took a moment to respond to Obama’s Libya address. Many applaud the President for explaining his decision, but few were 100% satisfied with the explanation. Many left with more questions than answers.

PoliticsPA is on the Redistricting Watch where the buzz is growing that Reps. Altmire and Critz will have some inter-party fights ahead. Rick Santorum was in the news a lot yesterday as we crawl closer to a decision on the former Senator’s future political plans. Wereport that he had a solid weekend in Iowa but Rep. Bachmann stole a lot of the thunder. Gov. Rendell explained to us all why politicos should never throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. Up in NW Pa., there is talk that Kathy Dahlkemper might run for her old congressional seat.
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Kathy Dahlkemper served two years as the congresswoman representing the 3rd Congressional District. Now the Erie Democrat is mulling over whether she should try in 2012 to retake the seat she lost to Republican Mike Kelly in the 2010 election.

In a Daily News column that compares throwing the first ball on Opening Day to having the FBI show up to your office, former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell explores the reasons why public officials should never don pitching duties.

After hundreds of your suggestions and nominations, here they are: PoliticsPA’s Harrisburg superlatives of 2011.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) declaration over the weekend that she is forming an exploratory committee for the Presidency was not good news for former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Bachmann is one of the most conservative members in the House (ranked 19th by National Journal) and a favorite of the tea party who gave its response to President Obama’s State of the Union in January.