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Washington, D.C.—Washington, DC – Congressman Carney’s staff will be holding office hours throughout the region during the month of August. Congressman Carney’s Case Workers will be available to meet individually with constituents to assist them with any problems they may be having with Federal agencies and departments. The staff will also be available to meet with anyone who would like to voice their opinion regarding federal legislation or policy being discussed in Congress. “Being accessible to the people of northeast and central Pennsylvania is one of my goals and I hope that people can take advantage of these opportunities to...

DALLAS TWP. – Someone’s at it again. A new group of signs against the re-election of U.S. Rep. Chris Carney has popped up along state Route 309 in the Back Mountain. The latest version is more colorful and detailed than the previous one that said “Dump Carney” and pictured the congressman’s name in a red circle with a line through it. This time the anonymous sign maker connected Carney to fellow Democrat Nancy Pelosi, depicting him as a hand puppet of the Speaker of the House. “Dump the Puppet!” reads the sign. The signs have angered the Chris Carney for...

U.S. Rep. Chris Carney wants to know why fellow Democrat U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski didn’t support his quest to sit on the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. “I would really like to understand Mr. Kanjorski’s vote,” Carney said. “I was surprised that the delegation didn’t honor the regional diversity that they are supposed to have on the committee by having two Philadelphia area Congressmen on the committee.” Carney won’t say much more. He just doesn’t understand why the Congressman for a neighboring district — a 13-term Congressman at that and the “dean” of the Pennsylvania Delegation — would not...

Congressman Chris Carney made his first public appearance in our area since voting for health care reform last week. The Democrat from the 10th Congressional District was in Prompton Monday afternoon. He handed firefighters a check for nearly $50,000; grant money that will pay for new uniforms, radios and pagers. While he was there, Carney defended his vote for President Obama's health care reform. "It was not that hard given the fact that a majority of people who called in from our district wanted some kind of reform," said Carney. Carney and other Democrats recently made headlines after they voted...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Carney’s bid to follow in the footsteps of his two Republican 10th District representative predecessors by sitting on the powerful House Appropriations Committee will have to wait A secret ballot vote conducted Thursday by the 11 members of the Pennsylvania Democratic congressional delegation resulted in U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Murphy, of Bristol, Bucks County, being recommended for a seat on the committee. The House Democratic Steering Committee will have the final say and could accept that recommendation or opt to choose someone else, even from another state. The vacancy opened up in February when U.S. Rep...

Two undecided northeastern Pennsylvania Democrats may decide the fate of health care overhaul legislation slated for a House vote this weekend. That hardly makes Congressmen Paul Kanjorski and Chris Carney happy. Their political futures hang in the balance. "It's an issue that creates enormous public grief for them," says Pennsylvania political analyst Professor Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. "It's not popular. Pieces of it are. But on the whole, people are against it." Kanjorski, whose 11th District includes Monroe County, and Carney, whose 10th District encompasses Pike County, haven't tipped their hands about how they'll vote....

U.S. Rep. Chris Carney will send $21,000 from his campaign war chest to a local charity, keeping a promise that if embattled U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel were ever found to have violated House ethics rules, he would return the money. “I have long said that I would give to charity any contributions from Mr. Rangel if the ethics committee found wrongdoing. I will be donating the contributions my campaign has received from Mr. Rangel to the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute,” Carney said. Carney’s campaign has received $21,000 from political action committees associated with the embattled Charles Rangel, 79, since the...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Carney said Tuesday he never did anything to encourage a national Republican committee's overtures last week to get him to switch parties. "No, not at all," Carney said. "Certainly not." The request was all the Republicans' idea, Carney said. The overtures included phone calls to Carney two days before Christmas by Arizona Sen. John McCain, the office of Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close friend of McCain, and Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. The NRCC supports the party's House candidates. "I'm definitely not switching," Carney...

Republicans are trying to woo U.S. Rep. Chris Carney to switch parties, with Sen. John McCain among several GOP leaders making pitches to the Susquehanna County Democrat. Mr. McCain on Wednesday called Mr. Carney at his home in Dimock Twp. to ask whether he would consider joining the GOP, a Carney spokesman confirmed. The effort to persuade Mr. Carney was first reported by Politico, which quoted a GOP aide who said the party received "a nibble" from Mr. Carney. But Mr. Carney's spokesman, press secretary Joshua Drobnyk, rebutted that part of the report. Mr. Carney in a statement late Wednesday...

These drones are no bees, but they can sting, and one of their operators is a local congressman who says they are integral to the war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq. U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, also known as Navy Reserve Cmdr. Chris Carney, is one of the military's remote operators of unmanned Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk drones that fly and spy over the Middle East countries. "I want to be on the cutting edge of our national defense and our defense technology," Mr. Carney said. "And this is it." The drones look like smaller, thinner planes. From thousands of...

U.S. Reps. Chris Carney and Paul E. Kanjorski lauded President Obama’s 45-minute address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night that detailed a blueprint for health care reform. But both said it’s a long road to go from words in a speech to words in bill. Carney said Obama’s foundation is solid and the congressman was “encouraged by what I heard.” But Carney will reserve making a commitment to support whatever bill comes up for a vote until he sees it. “Once again, let’s see how we get there . . . It’s got to do a lot of...

Here is video of citizens speaking their minds to Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Chris Carney, who represents the 10th Congressional District. The video shows quite a number of citizens speaking. At one point, Carney tells a woman that something she was concerned about "is not in the bill." Then later, he tells the crowd "the bill has not been written yet." This all happens within the first 3 minutes of the video. If you keep watching, you will hear him say repeatedly that various concerns of people are "not in the bill." He also tells people to "read the bill" he...

This story may or may not become big news. But it certainly says a lot about the earmark culture on Capitol Hill. A contractor, beneficiary of an earmark that the lobbyist group with close ties to John Murtha got for them, produced combat helmets so shoddy that the military has recalled 34,000 of them. The lobbyists, PMA Group, is mostly identified with Murtha but also garnered an astonishing number of earmarks from other lawmakers from both parties. They are now under investigation by the FBI for illegal campaign contributions among other transgressions. PMA Group Watch has the details: The Army...

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's remarks about "bitter" small-town Pennsylvanians could make it more difficult for vulnerable House Democrats, many of whom remain uncommitted as superdelegates to the Democratic convention, to back Obama's campaign. A good portion of House members who have not declared their support are moderates and conservatives who represent swing districts dominated by small towns. Republicans, in particular, sought to use the remarks to put two politically-vulnerable Democratic House members on the hot seat. The targets of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee were a pair of freshman Pennsylvania Democrats - Jason Altmire, who represents small towns outside...

In 2006, Chris Carney, a liberal college professor, took the seat. This year, we at RedState hope to take it back with Chris Hackett. Mr. Hackett, a CPA, is both a fiscal and social conservative. He is pro-life and anti-earmarks. His opponent, Chris Carney, has been spending federal dollars on earmarks claiming they bring the bacon home to the tenth. The problem is, Carney can't explain how his vote for fruit fly research in France brings jobs home. Chris Hackett, on the other hand, can deftly explain how growth in Washington kills jobs in the 10th. The 10th Congressional District...

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