Calling it “a linchpin for the area’s economy,” U.S. rep. Matt Cartwright Friday announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has allocated $2.4 million for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (AVP).
Cartwright, D-Moosic, said the allocation comes from a nearly $2 billion relief fund authorized by the coronavirus relief compromise bill enacted by Congress in late…
Two local fire companies are benefiting from COVID-19 emergency relief funds. Congressman Matt Cartwright announced that $15,000 will be given to four departments in the 8th District. The Green Dreher Volunteer Fire Association in Newfoundland will get about $5,300 and the Northern Wayne Fire Company in Lakewood is slated for about $2,900. These funds will go towards PPE and related…
Congressman Matt Cartwright (D) of the 8th District wants Pennsylvanians to be protected from the coronavirus.
Tuesday afternoon, he held a virtual town hall covering topics such as coronavirus economic relief and Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts.
“We need to do more to ensure everybody’s economic wellbeing and distribute the vaccines as soon as possible,” said…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright’s greatest expectation of his new hire, state Sen. John Blake, is simple: produce jobs.
Blake, D-22, Archbald, will resign his Senate seat March 8, the day he starts working as Cartwright’s new district director with an emphasis on economic development. They formally announced the moves at a joint news conference Monday at the former Oppenheim Building in…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright called Thursday for a shakeup in leadership at the U.S. Postal Service, saying problems with the nation’s mail service will not improve until there is change at the top.
An informal survey about the postal service that his 8th District office conducted this week produced more than 6,700 responses from constituents in 72 hours, with 94% complaining they had…
U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright and several members of the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation have urged House leadership to include provisions from the RESTAURANTS Act in the COVID-19 relief package being developed in Congress.
Small and independently owned restaurants and their employees are among the hardest hit by this pandemic, and this legislation would provide aid to meet…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) recently introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would create a plan to help mine operators tackle occupational COVID-19 exposure.
The COVID-19 Mine Worker Protection Act would require the U.S. Department of Labor to issue mine operators an emergency temporary standard. This standard would require the operators to provide miners with…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright has assumed leadership of a House Appropriations subcommittee, a promotion that he thinks means more federal dollars for Northeast Pennsylvania.
In his fifth term as a congressman, Cartwright has worked his way up to chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee. The subcommittee oversaw the allocation of about $71 billion in…
Five fire companies in Pennsylvania’s eighth congressional district will receive more than $56,000 in COVID-19 relief funds.
In Lackawanna County, Clarks Summit Fire Company No. 1 will be awarded $5,727.62, while $18,095 will go to William Walker Hose Company in Jermyn, according to U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright.
This funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, said Wednesday was a time to honor one of the most central traditions of American democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
“As Joe Biden is inaugurated, I’m so proud that we will have someone in the White House we can claim as our own in Northeastern Pennsylvania,” Cartwright said. “Joe knows the way of life of people here, as well as…
