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I rise today to recognize Krista Pontius on her selection as the recipient of the 2025 Pennsylvania Golden Owl Award. Krista is a longtime agriculture teacher and the FFA adviser at Greenwood High School in Millerstown, Pennsylvania. With…
this week, we will vote on legislation to improve our domestic energy market and to support President Trump's agenda on U.S. energy dominance. In my home State of Pennsylvania, we have abundant natural gas reserves. We can utilize this…
I rise today to join in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, 33 years after the VA medical center in Altoona was opened, Congress renamed the facility in…
I rise today to honor four generations of the Black family in Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, on the designation of their farm as a Century Farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. James Black purchased the farm in…
If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!
I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes
Forcing university presidents to resign, moreover, has not been part of the playbook of the Trump administration; as far as I know, I am the only university president in the country who has been forced to resign as part of a supposed deal…
They were basically willing to grant U.Va. blanket immunity — all of the inquiries and investigations would be suspended, no financial penalties would be imposed and agencies would be told not to cut off our research funding.
If I did not resign that day, I was told that the D.O.J. would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from U.Va. before they would even negotiate.
The call for my resignation, right until the end, seemed so outlandish as not to be entirely believable.
We need to be the party of order and logic … I refuse to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans.
When you’re confronting mass chaos, I don’t think you should respond with more chaos or fight with more chaos.
If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!
This bill fails to address the fundamental needs of families across our country. Americans have made it crystal clear that affordability is their number one concern. President Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs on day one, and…
I thank Chairman Cole for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, if this were a library, we would have the fiction side over there and the nonfiction side over here. The only thing that is not fiction, however, is their consistent criticism of the…
I don't know what your road for recovery is, but I promise if you stay in the game, you will get better, and I'm being here right now is a testament to that.
That's the message that I'd have to people in the throes of this now is … whoever [is] in your life, they need you, they need you.
For me, depression is the ultimate lie that you begin to tell yourself, that perhaps the best solution is to take yourself out.