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LACEYVILLE — Energy was the reason local, state and governmental leaders gathered in the small town of Laceyville on Friday — but what also rose from the conversation between commissioners, farmers, congressmen and community members was a promise that rural America is not forgotten.
Three House members who represent Northeast Pennsylvania split along party lines in the chamber’s first vote on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s conduct. U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, R-9, Dallas, and Rep. Fred Keller, R-12, Snyder County, voted against opening the inquiry. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8, Moosic, voted for it. Here are comments each made on their votes:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight members of the Pennsylvania Republican Congressional Delegation voted unsuccessfully to block Speaker Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff’s last-minute vote to legitimize the baseless push to impeach President Trump,
Among those who voted against it were U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson and U.S. Rep. Fred Keller.
Passage in Congress of a procedural vote to start a formal impeachment process into President Donald Trump's actions will only solidify the divide between Republican and Democratic legislators and many Valley voters, political observers said on Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Fred Keller, R-Kreamer, on Thursday blasted House Democrats supporting the resolution outlining the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
The measure sketches out guidelines for public hearings in the inquiry and the president’s participation in the process.
Pennsylvania’s 18 members of the House of Representatives are evenly divided by party — 9 Democrats and 9 Republicans.
So it’s no surprise that the Keystone lawmakers split evenly Thursday on the vote establishing rules for the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (A new Franklin & Marshall poll suggests the same is true among voters.)
Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation didn’t deliver any surprises when it came to the House vote on the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
House lawmakers debated a bill Tuesday that if passed could help students who struggle to afford college, though Republicans fretted over how to pay for the assistance.
Forty-seven people from 25 different countries gathered before Magistrate Judge William Arbuckle to be naturalized and granted their citizenship in the United States.
U.S. Rep. Fred Keller, R-Kreamer, and the Lycoming County Daughters of the American Revolution were also in attendance to congratulate the citizens on Friday.
One of the House Republicans who interrupted a closed-door hearing on Wednesday to protest the Democrats' handling of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump defended the move on Thursday.