Mary Gay Scanlon
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Mary Gay Scanlon is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district since January 3, 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights during her time in office. Scanlon has been an advocate for policies aimed at addressing gun violence and promoting environmental sustainability.
And when you retrace it, you will find that there were three kind of things on their mind: One was a President who tries to corrupt our elections; two was a President who makes deals with foreign powers in order to alter the course of our…
In other words, we had unanimous agreement among our academic scholars that abuse of power is an impeachable offense.
In fact, we have contemporaneous witnesses, like Ambassador Sondland and others, who said, no, it was clear that what was important to the President was getting this personal political favor.
The committee did not subpoena the call detail records for any Member of Congress or staff.
There is no exception in the Constitution that allows a President to cheat in an election just because the economy's going well.
If President Trump's obstruction, abuse of power, and obstruction of Congress are not impeachable, nothing is.
So, you know, I think it takes us back to basics again, and the basics being, if it looks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck.
I loved my job as a public interest lawyer, and I loved volunteering with kids, helping them to get a good start and helping them to understand why our government and our laws are what make our country that shining city on a hill, a beacon…
I think the bigger questions going to be how many Republicans they lose?
Impeachment is not about undoing an election. Elections are for, as the speaker suggested earlier today, that when you disagree with someone's morals, where you disagree with their qualifications, or you disagree with their policies, this…
He is soliciting interference from another country, and when he got caught out, he is trying to obstruct that investigation.
I think we are just trying to work through it as expeditiously as we can.
I think we laid out really clearly yesterday with the witnesses, talking about why we have an impeachment clause, why the Founders thought there were certain things that constituted impeachable conduct, and they were the very things we are…
I am honored to take part in this Special Order hour tonight in which we honor the Nation's HBCUs and highlight our support for the FUTURE Act. My district, Pennsylvania's fifth, is home to the oldest HBCU in the United States, Cheyney…
The President's obstruction of Congress' investigation into his use of the Office of the President to squeeze the Ukrainian Government to help the Trump reelection campaign.
Every day I hear from constituents who are going broke trying to pay for their prescriptions, and more often than not they are seniors--seniors like Cheryl, who often has to decide whether to forgo one of her monthly medications or to pay…
I take no joy in contemplating the impeachment of a President because, in contemplating it, we must acknowledge a threat to our Constitution and the values that bind us not only as Members of Congress but as Americans. We have tried to…
Last week, we celebrated the life of service of our colleague Elijah Cummings. He always said our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see. Nothing could be truer. In addition, students and young advocates…
The fact that we are breaking our word to men and women who've put their lives on the line for this country is profoundly disturbing to me.





