Friday, December 21, 2012
Open Secrets has published a list of recipients of National Rifle Association campaign contributions that also includes outgoing U.S. Reps. Mark Critz of Johnstown and Jason Altmire of McCandless, both Democrats.
U.S. Reps Tom Murphy (R-Upper St. Clair), Mark Critz (D-Johnstown), Jason Altmire (D-McCandless) and Mike Kelly (R-Butler) of Pennsylvania accepted thousands in 2012 campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The NRA doled out more than $750,000 in campaign contributions in 2012, according to the center, a research organization that tracks money in politics and how it affects elections and policies and shares the information on OpenSecrets.org. The center obtained its data from the Federal Election Commission. Fifteen members of Congress from Pennsylvania accepted contributions from the NRA during their 2012 bids for office, according to the center's list. Three of the top…
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Construction will soon be under way on a University Boulevard military commissary, marking the end of a six-year battle to bring the facility to Moon.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, said it was a testament to perseverance. Members of Pennsylvania's Congressional delegation and military officials from across the region yesterday attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the long-awaited Moon Township military commissary. The 43,000 square-foot facility, set to open in the fall of 2013, will house a grocery store for more than 170,000 military members and their families in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The regional hub will be located at the corner of University Boulevard and the Interstate 376 Business Route in Moon and will more than double the size of Oakdale's Charles E. Kelly Commissary, which is slated to close. The effort to bring the new commissary to Moon has been in the…
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Congressmen Jason Altmire and Tim Murphy say small reactors could lessen dependence on outside energy sources.
Last Friday, federal lawmakers unveiled a piece of legislation they say could lessen America's dependence on foreign energy sources. At a news conference at Westinghouse Electric Company’s headquarters in Cranberry, U.S. Reps. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, and Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, joined Westinghouse President Dr. Aris Candris and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Kathryn Jackson to introduce the Nuclear Power 2021 Act, which is designed to ease the development of the nation’s first small nuclear reactors. “The goal is by 2021 to have a least two of these up and running in the country,” Altmire said. Based on the Westinghouse-designed AP-1000 nuclear reactor, the small nuclear reactor can be built and fueled more quickly and at a much …
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