The Preparedness and Risk Management for Extreme Weather Patterns Assuring Resilience and Effectiveness (PREPARE Act) garnered bipartisan support when it was introduced in the House by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA). The bill creates an interagency council that would guide the implementation of extreme weather resilience, preparedness, and risk identification initiatives and requires agencies to incorporate extreme weather events into their planning. The bill supports regional planning efforts and provides resources for adaptation planning to Tribal, state, and local governments.
Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Subcommittee member U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) delivered the following remarks at today’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) FY25 Budget Hearing.
Cartwright, who also serves as the Ranking Member of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, also asked FSGG Chair David Joyce (OH-14) to enter…
Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) and U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA) introduced the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, bicameral legislation to guarantee the right of public sector employees to organize, act concertedly, and bargain collectively in states that currently do not afford these basic protections.
“Private sector workers are guaranteed the right…
As labor unions gain in popularity, workers’ rights remain under threat. But while private sector workers have the right to form unions under federal law, public service workers lack that same guarantee.
That’s why AFSCME applauds Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Reps. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) for reintroducing the bipartisan Public Service Freedom…
During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) questioned FTC Chair Lina Khan about oil prices and actions taken against certain companies for conspiring to artificially maintain high prices at the pump.
Watch the video here.
U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08), a member of the Democratic Border Security Task Force, joined 14 House Democrats in calling on President Biden to take executive action to restore order at the Southern border.
In the letter sent Tuesday, the Members urged the President to use all the tools at his disposal, including executive action, to better address security at the Southern…
Sixteen House Democrats voted to undo President Biden’s pause on some weapons shipments to Israel on Thursday, breaking with the White House and party leadership, who urged its members to oppose the GOP-led bill.
Top Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue urged members in their ranks to oppose the bill: House Democratic leadership whipped against the…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright and more than a dozen other Democratic lawmakers are urging the president to use all tools at his disposal, including executive action, to “restore order” at the southern border.
The Moosic Democrat and 14 of his House colleagues sent President Joe Biden a letter this week describing the current border situation as “untenable” and accusing Republicans of…
A group of House Democrats facing a tough campaign cycle has called on President Biden to take executive action on the United States' border with Mexico.
The legislators from Minnesota, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Michigan, among other states, urged Biden in a letter first obtained by CBS News to "immediately take further action to restore order at the Southern border and fix…
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright on Monday said the work our local governments do to support affordable housing is invaluable, and this support from the federal level will help that work continue.
Cartwright, D-Moosic, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that more than $17 million is coming back to the region to help build, renovate and modernize public housing…
