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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama signed H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act into law. This bipartisan legislation – which unanimously passed both the House and Senate – addresses the epidemic of suicide among our nation's veterans.
Washington, DC– Today, Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that the 2016 DNC will be held in Philadelphia. Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) issued the following statement moments after the announcement:
Statement from Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) on the crisis in Ukraine:
February 7, 2015- Two area congressmen said Friday that the Navy's repeated delays on off-loading the former Willow Grove air base were having a ripple effect on the ability of local, state, and federal agencies to plan for the future.
Reps. Patrick Meehan and Brendan Boyle said the continued delays on transferring the 850-acre base were hindering planning for school enrollment, transportation projects, and attracting real estate and business investment.
I come to the floor today to add my support to the budget that the Administration has just proposed. It recognizes that the middle class is the true engine of economic growth. American workers are capable of creating world-beating value if they are permitted some opportunity, some modest investment, and a fair tax environment that rewards them for their labor. We ‘ve already had a preview of the opposite approach: of letting our citizens fend for themselves in the economic "state of nature" known as austerity.
DAVID GAMBACORTA, Daily News Staff Writer gambacd@phillynews.com, 215-854-5994
C'MON YOU GUYS, let's turn those frowns upside down!
Glenside >> He's among the youngest members of Congress, in the minority party and a freshman, but none of that appears to outweigh the enthusiasm of newly-minted U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle.
Sitting in his new Glenside office Jan. 23, the 37-year-old Democrat reflected on his brief two and a half weeks in Congress since his swearing in to represent the 13th Congressional District, which covers Northeast Philadelphia and eastern Montgomery County.
By William Bender, Daily News
PRESIDENT OBAMA flew into Philadelphia last night to invigorate a diminished House Democratic caucus and sketch out the party's national agenda for the next two years.
Speaking to a somewhat rowdy crew at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel, on Dock Street below 2nd, Obama called for new infrastructure investment and middle-class tax relief, closing special-interest tax loopholes and ending the across-the-board "sequestration" cuts in effect since 2013.
By Jessica Parks, Philadelphia Inquirer
HORSHAM - U.S. Reps. Patrick Meehan (R., Pa.) and Brendan Boyle (D., Pa.) are pressing the Navy to move faster on transferring the former Willow Grove Naval Air Station to a local redevelopment agency.
The 862-acre base has been largely vacant since 2011. The Horsham Land Redevelopment Agency hoped to get the land by the end of 2014 and begin building homes right about now. Subsequent phases would add retail, office and recreational space.