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Washington, DC– In the wake of the horrific act of hate and terror in Orlando last week, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) today joined House Democrats’ sit-in on the House Floor to demand that Speaker Ryan and House Republicans allow a vote on bipartisan legislation to address gun violence.
Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Brendan F. Boyle (D/PA-13),Patrick Meehan (R/PA-07) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R/PA-08) today secured a commitment from the chairman of the House’s defense spending panel to work with the lawmakers and the state of Pennsylvania to address the need for health screenings in communities surrounding the former Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base at Willow Grove and the former Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster.
Washington, D.C. – Pennsylvania lawmakers yesterday urged the Department of the Navy to provide health screenings and water filtration systems for residents of Horsham, Montgomery County and Warminster, Bucks County affected by the presences of PFOA and PFOS chemical compounds in drinking water. The compounds have been detected in public and private wells in communities surrounding the former Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster and the former Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove in Horsham.
Click to view WTXF/Fox29 report on a letter I sent to the Navy regarding the water quality situation in Willow Grove.
by Laura McCrystal, Philly.com Staff Writer
Is toxic water in the vicinity of the former Naval Air Station Willow Grove and the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster making people sick?
That's the concern three area congressmen raised Thursday in a letter to the Navy demanding answers about the government's knowledge of the water issues.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) spoke on the House Floor today to honor Sanford Harling III. The 12 year-old boy who died tragically after running into a burning house to rescue his bedridden father. Below is a transcript of his remarks and a link to the video:
LINK TO VIDEO HERE: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4580409/sanford-harling-honored-floor-us-house-representatives
By Carl Rotenberg, The Times Herald
NORRISTOWN >> Sometime in early February. U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-13th Dist., will have a front-row office on Main Street in Norristown, the Montgomery County seat.
Washington, DC– Today, Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) voted with 359 Democratic and Republican colleagues in the House to adopt the conference report on Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act -- a measure that reauthorizes highway, bridge, transportation safety, and public transit projects for the next five years. The measure provides $281 billion in guaranteed funding for these programs over these five years. The measure also reauthorizes the critically important Export-Import Bank for four years, which helps American workers and businesses compete in the global economy.
By William Kenny
The Arbours at Eagle Pointe was envisioned as an "older adults" community from the first day its developers pitched their plans to the Somerton Civic Association about a decade ago. But 55 and older folks aren't the only dominant demographic among the hundreds of inhabitants.
The development has a large percentage of military veterans, too.
BY LAURA BENSHOFF
If you build it, they will come. At least, that's the idea behind SEPTA's first new train station in 18 years.
The new Ninth Street station in Lansdale was built to breathe new life into a defunct industrial property, the former site of the American Olean Tile Company plant. The train stop boasts bike racks and 78 permanent parking spaces. It's so new that landscapers have yet to begin on what was just mud on a recent sunny November morning.