US Senate News
By U.S. Senator Pat Toomey June 8, 2013 Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sarah Murnaghan, a brave 10-year-old, wants to be a singer or a veterinarian when she grows up. She should have just wrapped up the school year. Instead, she has spent more than 100 days at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia battling for [...] Read More
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, said the IRS’ added scrutiny on tea party groups appears “completely politically motivated,” contradicting statements from IRS officials.” At a Senate hearing today, Toomey pointed in particular to IRS leaders’ inability — or unwillingness — to say who allowed the tea party targeting to resume even after it had [...] Read More
Intimidation and threats allegedly carried out by the Internal Revenue Service on Tea Party members is the latest black eye for a federal agency that is known for its harsh behavior. Pennsylvania Senator, Pat Toomey says, someone must be held accountable. “Somebody needs to be fired there. This is totally beyond anything that’s acceptable.” Toomey [...] Read More
RADNOR – The Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, President of Villanova University, announced that United States Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) will address the Class of 2013 as the university’s commencement speaker. Sen. Toomey will also receive the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. The University’s 170th commencement will be held on Sunday, [...] Read More
Ken Nacke of Baltimore hopes to be in Philadelphia in January as the Navy commissions the USS Somerset, formally placing the ship into active service. Nacke’s brother, Louis J. Nacke II, was one of 40 passengers and crew members aboard United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, when the plane, overtaken by terrorists, crashed in [...] Read More
NORRISTOWN — The sequester budget cuts that recently had Congress scrambling to untangle the mess caused by furloughed air traffic controllers is more manageable than the Obama administration is letting on, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey told an editorial roundtable. On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s junior senator met with editors from Digital First Media and responded to their [...] Read More
COOLBAUGH TWP. – U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey updated officials at Tobyhanna Army Depot on Wednesday about efforts to bring an air traffic control center to the military installation. “I can’t imagine a better facility in all of America than this facility,” the Republican senator said after a meeting with depot executives, other officeholders and economic [...] Read More
Is there a way that we, as Americans, can improve our ability to stop guns from getting into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill, without denying the freedom of law-abiding people to own firearms? That’s the question I have grappled with as the U.S. Senate turns to the issue of gun control. [...] Read More
Though the sun has set on the celebrated public careers of Arlen Specter, Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania’s last generation of national political giants, it may well be dawning for Pat Toomey, the commonwealth’s junior Republican U.S. senator. Initially disregarded by many as a bright-eyed freshman with big ideas, Toomey has embraced the full breadth [...] Read More
Sen. Pat Toomey and his Democratic colleague Joe Manchin of West Virginia Wednesday unveiled a legislative proposal to subject more gun purchases to background checks. “I’ve not taken a very high profile role on this issue,” Toomey said. “What became apparent to me in the course of this debate, there is the danger that we [...] Read More
