Matt Cartwright: “I urge the subcommittee to increase its support for our long-neglected national railway network.”

EDA has an important role in spurring job creation and economic diversification.

These are men and women that have dedicated their lives to the protection of American citizens.

You know that in northeastern Pennsylvania, our economy has been bumping along since the decline of coal mining, since NAFTA, which bestowed benefits and burdens across our nation, but unevenly across our geography.

We have also heard talk about this Republican Study Committee, which is a group of 80 percent of the Republicans here in the United States House of Representatives, and it is a committee that came up with a proposal about Social Security…