Press Releases
Co-Sponsors legislation to recognize brave actions of WWII heroes, including Milton native
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) today met with the surviving members of Merrill’s Marauders, a group of World War II heroes who made up the top-secret, long-range penetration unit of Army volunteers fighting behind enemy lines in Burma.
Notes importance of America’s energy independence
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Fred Keller (R-PA) Tuesday issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address:
“I thank President Donald Trump for delivering a forward-looking message of unity that strikes an optimistic tone for the future of our country.
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.