By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs Since the late 19th century, native Pennsylvanians have gathered in New York City to discuss politics and current events of their home Commonwealth.
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Two years after completing a massive $5.3 million renovation, the Keystone chapter was on display this week in a celebration of
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone For months, Democrats have been positioning the 2017 “off-year” elections as an early referendum on the Trump administration and in three
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Since 2006, Pennsylvania has enjoyed bipartisan representation in the United States Senate. After years of Republican control with the late Arlen
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Last week’s meeting of the five ABC chapters throughout Pennsylvania brought a rare opportunity to work with some uncommon coalition partners
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone After more than three months, Republican lawmakers are still searching for viable solution to the Commonwealth’s unfinished budget, which has started
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone In an interview earlier this week, Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said, “we’re out of money and we’ve never been
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone Historically, midterm elections have not gone well for sitting Presidents. Only two years into a term, Presidents have lost seats in
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone August 30, 2017 In early 2017, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) indicated that they had plans to include a project
By: Brent Sailhamer, Director of Government Affairs, ABC Keystone For months, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Leslie Richards has been hounded by members of the General Assembly and construction
Last week, members of ABC Keystone held the inaugural meeting of the Legislative & Advocacy Committee, a combination of the former committees of Legislative/Legal Rights and Grassroots. Bill Greenawalt of
By: Brent Sailhamer, ABC Keystone Director of Government Affairs With a stronger majority in both the House and Senate, Republicans have finally selected their committee chairs for the 2017-2018 legislative
