Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today announced that her guest for President Trump’s Address to Congress on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 will be Jay “Smitty” Smith, a United States Navy veteran who was recently terminated from the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) when the Trump administration began laying off IRS workers last month, right at the start of tax… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, today delivered opening remarks during the hearing on the Fourteenth Amendment and Donald Trump’s illegal assault on birthright citizenship.
Below are Ranking Member Scanlon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) yesterday convened a roundtable of local health care stakeholders to raise the alarm about House Republicans' budget resolution that aims to cut at least $880 billion in federal Medicaid funding and to learn more about how those cuts would impact patients and health care operations.
Medicaid provides coverage to 2.68 million… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today joined House Democrats in announcing a new effort to hear directly from Americans harmed by the Trump Administration.
“If you have lost your job, been denied important services, or face other impacts because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s extreme, illegal, and unconstitutional actions, we need to hear directly from you,”… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today introduced the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, bipartisan legislation that would expand access to federal support for the families of firefighters and other first responders who pass away or become permanently disabled from service-related cancers. Currently, firefighters are only eligible for support under the Public Safety… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today joined House Judiciary Committee Democrats in urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director David Huitema to uphold federal ethics laws relevant to Elon Musk’s role as a Special Government Employee (SGE). Given Musk’s vast involvement in federally regulated industries and potential… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today joined House Democrats to introduce the Taxpayer Data Protection Act in response to Elon Musk’s shameful invasion of Americans’ privacy. The legislation would stop people with conflicts of interest or without a security clearance from accessing the highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system – which is also… Read more »
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) was joined today by Representatives Brendan Boyle (PA-02), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), and Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) on a letter to Directors Flaherty-Oxler and Harkins of the Philadelphia and Coatesville Veterans Administration medical centers, respectively, to ascertain the impact of the Trump Administration's… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) released the following statement addressing the dozens of controversial executive actions issued in the first days of the new Trump Administration.
“Many constituents have reached out with concern in recent days as the new President sought to impose sweeping, dictatorial changes across the federal government. Within hours of… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) today reintroduced the Inaugural Fund Integrity Act, her bill that would establish limits on donations to presidential inaugural funds and require the disclosure of donations and disbursements to those funds. Congresswoman Scanlon has introduced the Inaugural Fund Integrity Act in every Congress since she was sworn into the 115th… Read more »
