Press Releases
Says tax plan would stifle community investment
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) today called Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan for a natural gas severance tax irresponsible and misguided, saying the plan would stifle job creation and ongoing community investment from an industry that is already giving back to Pennsylvania.
Local Access Road funding will go to Marsh Road Construction Project
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) today announced the Appalachian Regional Commission has awarded a Local Access Road grant of $697,659 to Milton Borough for the Marsh Road Construction Project.
The grant will be supplemented with just over $1.786 million in combined state and local funding.
ReConnect program’s loans and grants go to funding rural broadband expansion
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) today announced the United States Department of Agriculture will open a second round of ReConnect program funding on Friday.
FEMA is prepared to assist with application training, webinars
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) announced today that the start of the FY 2019 Assistance to Firefighters Grants application period will begin February 3, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. and end on March 13, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.
Says Americans must not be silent in the face of open and ugly bigotry
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) today participated in a hearing with the House Oversight and Reform Committee about exploring hate and anti-Semitism 75 years after the Holocaust.
Congressman Keller noted that while anti-Semitism is alive in America today, it has taken the form of “a hard bigotry of soft words”:
$1,710,000 in combined grants will go to research projects
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) announced today that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Penn State University two grants that will fund research projects.
Resolution expresses the sense of Congress to save Minor League Baseball
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA), a founding member of the Protect Minor League Baseball Task Force, today announced the introduction of a resolution he has co-sponsored to protect the current minor league structure.
Requests House and Senate Budget Committees require the CBO to include debt servicing costs in all CBO estimates
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) announced today that he has signed a bipartisan, bicameral letter led by Congressman Mike Cloud (R-TX), Congressman Ed Case (D-HI), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) requesting that the House and Senate Budget Committees require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include debt servicing costs in all CBO estimates.
Says deal will help Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry, particularly Pennsylvania hardwood producers
Washington, D.C. — According to the trade deal, China has agreed to buy more than $200 billion of U.S. goods over a two-year period. That total includes $75 billion worth of manufactured goods, including hardwoods, $50 billion of energy, $40 billion of agriculture, and up to $40 billion of services.
Says streamlined processes will allow for more infrastructure, energy projects to come on line
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA), a member of the House Energy Action Team (HEAT), stated his support for changes to the National Energy Policy Act (NEPA) review process announced by President Donald Trump today.