Senator Bob Casey News

This year, as it's been the case since 1999, the Philadelphia School District administered the PSSAs and the Keystone Exams.

Stone Brewing Co. is a California brand with a serious following. But U.S. Sen Bob Casey is hoping the brewer creates its East Coast facility in Pennsylvania.

Advanced certified nursing assistants - with specialized skills in care transitions, dementia and other areas - could become important staff leaders in long-term care facilities through newly proposed federal legislation.

The Post-Gazette has consistently bemoaned the rank partisanship that has made filling federal judgeships much more difficult than it should be.

Actor Paul Sorvino is 75. Actor Tony Dow is 69. Singer Al Green is 68. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., is 54. Actor Ricky Schroder is 44. 1914: Joyous Easter: "The Easter Communion at St. Peter's Reformed Church was the largest in the history of that congregation.

FOR GREG and Gracie Pfeiffer, having a son born with a genetic disorder affecting his skull called for the expertise of craniofacial specialists at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

I did this past week, as Tuesday was the always dreaded deadline for the Cycle 1 campaign finance report that has to be filed for state legislative candidates, as well as the state-wide races.

Since 2005, almost $120 million has been cut from a federal program that helps local police departments hire new officers, and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said he wants to reverse that money flow.

There was no popcorn but plenty of policy talk at a movie screening in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center.

A group of five Democratic senators want the Justice Department to take action to keep General Motors from denying responsibility for faulty ignition switches.

This week, we have a brouhaha at the Brick Haus, a very expensive egg sandwich , an unusual use of a turkey fryer, bologna name wars, and more.

U.S. Senator Bob Casey announced that he has helped to launch a bipartisan working group on the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee to tackle the increasing crisis of prescription drug and heroin abuse across the country.

In Wake of Massive Recall: Casey Calls on DOJ To Push GM To Establish Victims Compensation Fund and Accept Civil Responsibility for Faulty Cars that Cost Lives U.S. Senator Bob Casey , joined by five Senators, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging the Department of Justice to push General Motors to establish a victims compensation ... (more)

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey made a simple argument: More cops on the street make for safer streets and more bulletproof vests for cops make for safer cops.

The wheels of state government typically grind slowly, so swift action by the Public Utility Commission -- done in weeks, not months or years -- comes as a pleasant surprise.

Washington, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey will push for a plan to add more cops to Pennsylvania's streets following a $118 million cut to the COPS Hiring program since 2010.

U.S. Senator Bob Casey released the following statement on the incident at Franklin Regional High School: "I am stunned by the senseless tragedy at Franklin Regional High School.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Wednesday expressed hope that the showing of a film in the nation's Capitol depicting the infamous "kids for cash'' scandal that shocked Luzerne County in 2008 will serve as an impetus to reform America's juvenile justice system.

Erie's neediest residents already have it tough. Now they will have to absorb an indirect blow because of federal cutbacks in the Community Development Block Grant program.

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