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Former KYW-TV anchor/reporter Diane Allen ran for a New Jersey state Senate seat.

What's up with television people going into politics? From The Delaware County Daily Times: Former Fox 29 News anchor Dawn Stensland could soon be on the other side of the cameras as a Republican candidate in the 7th Congressional District.

Citizens Against Government Waste is combing through the fiscal year 2010 omnibus bill containing six appropriations bills , preparing to announce earmark totals.

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah recently invoked rock - n' roll legend Junior Walker and the All-Stars as he announced the award of $844,176 in grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to four new affordable housing projects in Germantown, North and West Philadelphia.

Black lawmakers who have held their tongues during most of President Obama's first year in office are stepping up their demands that the nation's first black president do more for minority communities hit hardest by the recession.

It looks increasingly like Democrats are going to have a dogfight on their hands in suburban Philadelphia's 6th Congressional District.

A $3 billion emergency mortgage assistance program for unemployed homeowners -- authored by Congressman Chaka Fattah and based on a successful Pennsylvania program that Fattah helped create as a young state legislator -- is on the verge of passage in the House of Representatives.

World leaders spouting their usual "sky-is-falling" rhetoric during their international climate change summit in Copenhagen this month, along with their supporters, are ignoring evidence of fraud and corruption exposed in emails exchanged by leading "climate experts." Last Friday, Congressman Chaka Fattah , a member of the House Appropriations ...

Absent from campus for the past several years, the pro-choice student group Penn for Choice was reinstated last night after holding its introductory meeting.

More than seven years after Congress directed the National Park Service "to appropriately commemorate" the presidential home in Philadelphia - where at least nine of George Washington's slaves toiled - no workable interpretive program explaining the site and its significance is ready for public discussion, project managers say.

Stung by criticism over data showing billions in federal stimulus money going to nonexistent congressional districts in Pennsylvania and other states, the government corrected its Web site created to track the money.

It's not often I get a chance to offer a hearty "well done!" to Philadelphia's stable of Democrats, but last week our delegation to the House really did good.

In case you're wondering which Pennsylvania members of Congress supported the Pelosi Health Care Bill, which will raise taxes and put your family's current health care coverage at risk, see the list below.

President Obama on Friday signed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which will provide $475 million to eight states as part of the Interior and Environment Appropriations Act of 2010.

Congressman Chaka Fattah , Chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Urban Caucus, issues the following statement on the eve of Saturday's scheduled vote on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act: "We stand on the threshold of history.

I don't know about you, but for me, Tuesday's election had all the excitement of a room-temperature Coke.

If it were a movie called "Seven Candidates for Seven Judgeships," it would get two thumbs down for lack of drama.

Gov. Rendell today chastised union leaders for calling a strike against SEPTA, saying they turned down a "sensational" contract in tough economic times.

There have been years in Philadelphia when the election ballot for judge has been so long and complex that even the Democratic and Republican City Committees' sample ballots were not much help.

Congressman Sestak Helps Unveil Local SEPTA Stimulus Project Philadelphia, PA - Today, Congressman Joe Sestak took part in announcing the procurement of 40 new hybrid buses by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority .