Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) and Mariannette Miller Meeks (IA-02) today introduced the bipartisan Courtroom Dogs Act to grant the Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to develop best practice guidelines for the use of support dogs in federal courts.
The Courtroom Dogs Act, which was also introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senators… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon’s Justice for Juveniles Act passed the House with overwhelming support and awaits action in the Senate. The bill, which previously passed the House in September 2020, was introduced by Rep. Scanlon (PA-05) in part as a response to decades of abuse exposed at Glen Mills — the nation’s oldest reform school, which closed in April… Read more »
Philadelphia, PA – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) and Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02), Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Co-Chair of House Hunger Caucus, visited several locations in Philadelphia and Upper Darby on Friday, June 18 as part of a day-long tour focused on ending hunger in America.
The tour centered around a roundtable held at Bartram’s… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) today announced the introduction of the Veterans Medical Legal Partnerships Act of 2021, which would provide grants to state and local governments to create Medical Legal Partnerships aimed at ensuring access to legal services for veterans — thereby reducing homelessness… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which held that while tax-payer funded foster care agencies do not have license to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs, the City of Philadelphia had not neutrally enforced its nondiscrimination… Read more »
Chester, PA – Today, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) announced Dyvne Lee, a 10th grader at Strath Haven High School, as the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for Pennsylvania’s 5th District. Her piece, “There will always be beauty in Brown Eyes,” will be sent to Washington D.C. to hang in the Capitol for one year.
“Art is a powerful platform… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) introduced the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act of 2021 as part of the most aggressive bipartisan effort in recent memory to strengthen America’s antitrust laws. The ACCESS Act, cosponsored by Congressman Burgess Owens (UT-04), would tackle anticompetitive behavior by online… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) announced seven of the transportation and infrastructure projects she proposed to receive federal funding and benefit her district, totaling $20,800,000, have been included in the House’s surface transportation reauthorization bill, the INVEST in America Act. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I)… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) announced the introduction of the No Trace Act, legislation which would prevent government agencies from accessing an American’s geolocation information without first obtaining a warrant. The bipartisan bill is co-led by U.S. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Lou Correa (CA-46), and Victoria Spartz… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today issued the following statement on President Biden’s new memorandum to expand access to legal representation and the courts:
“Equal justice under the law cannot be achieved when the deck is stacked against those who do not have access to counsel. Whether protecting the rights of an accused individual in our criminal… Read more »
