Lou Barletta

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Budget negotiations between Republican legislative leaders and the Corbett administration resume today -- but with a new wrinkle. Yesterday, the Legislature's new Independent Fiscal Office predicted the state will...

Legislation carving Easton out of the Lehigh Valley's congressional district now awaits Gov. Tom Corbett's signature to become law. The state House passed a new congressional map Tuesday; the Senate passed it last week. The new map shifts the city......

Easton, the Northampton County city, will no longer be part of the Lehigh Valley 15th congressional district, according to a redrawn map released in Harrisburg Tuesday night. Instead the city will become part of the 17th congressional district,...

Here at Pennsylvania Ave. we're starting a new, occasional feature: Fun with Polls. For our first installment, results of a Gallup poll released last week. It's good news for Charlie Dent and Allyson Schwartz and Lou Barletta and Tim Holden......

As state legislators toil over redesigning the congressional map, one rumor making the rounds is that U.S. Rep. Tim Holden's district could be redrawn to include Easton. Holden, a Democrat and the longest serving Pennsylvania congressman, called it a...

Paul Kanjorski knows a little something about losing favor with northeast Pennsylvania voters. The former Democratic U.S. congressman lost his job last year after serving 26 years. And he said this week President Barack Obama could face a similar fate.......

Capitol Ideas Intern Mike Macagnone Reports: Finding a story that showcases the absurdity of the blogosphere, partisan advocacy groups, the 24-hour news cycle and post 9/11 security theater all at once can be tough, but here goes it. Conservative...

At first glance, Congressman Tim Holden, D-17th District, seemed to be catching the dickens from both sides, getting slammed by two political action committees with contrasting roots. The liberal-leaning Blue America Super PAC, based in California, put...

Lehigh Valley Republican congressman Charlie Dent will endorse Mitt Romney for president at an event in Harrisburg Tuesday, sources confirm. Dent will make just the second Pennsylvanian to endorse the former Massachusetts governor in the 2012 presidential...

As Republicans in Congress pledged Wednesday to pass legislation blocking the White House's rule that all health-insurance -- including those offered by Catholic employers -- cover birth control, Democrat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called on the president to...

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum received his third endorsement from a sitting member of Congress Thursday, announcing support from freshman lawmaker Lou Barletta. Barletta joins U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson and U.S. Rep. Tom Marino as the now trio of...

Sometimes our readers pleasantly surprise me. "Some of the Harrisburg gang that pushed through the midnight illegal pay grab are running in the Pa. primary," one of them wrote recently. "I think you promised to remind the voters who they are …...