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Washington, DC — Yesterday, Aileen Magnotto, founder of Hermitage-based MagNoodles Smart Pasta, delivered more than 23,000 servings of her line of multi-grain, vegetable-based pasta to the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. The event included a cooking class with PBS celebrity chef George Hirsch, who showed a group of 40 children how to make a healthy meal using MagNoodles Pasta and other ingredients available through the food bank.
Washington, DC — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) received the Guardian of Small Business award from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in recognition of his legislative efforts to promote and support America’s small business owners. NFIB President and CEO Dan Danner called Rep. Kelly a “champion of small business,” counting him among the U.S. Representatives and Senators who “work to promote and protect the right of small business owners to own, operate and grow their business.”
Washington, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) sent a letter to the President and Ministers of the Commission of the European Union (EU) urging the Commission to add Hezbollah to the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations. Rep.
Washington, D.C. —U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) issued the following statement on his vote today in support of the Stop the War on Coal Act (H.R. 3409):
Washington, D.C. —U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) offered an amendment to H.R. 3409 that would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to submit a report to Congress estimating the economic impact of the Obama Administration’s latest Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard and how it would affect highway safety.
Specifically, Rep. Kelly’s amendment, which passed the House today by a vote of 242 to 168, would require DOT to calculate:
(1) the total number of jobs that will be lost due to decreased demand;
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) issued the following statement in response to the report released today by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General on Operation Fast and Furious, which criticized senior DOJ officials, among others, for disregarding the public’s safety and failing to recognize serious internal warnings regarding the fatally flawed gun-running program:
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) and U.S. Senator Pat Toomey hosted a briefing today to discuss ongoing efforts to combat Asian carp in the Ohio River Watershed. Pennsylvania and other states are facing unprecedented threats and impacts from burgeoning populations of Asian carp in the mainstem and tributaries of the Ohio River, which would dramatically impact local and regional economies and ecologies.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) issued the following statement on his vote today in support of H.R. 6365, the National Security and Jobs Protection Act, which requires the President to submit a plan to avoid sequestration and makes clear that if the President opposes the House Republican plan, the House will work with him to achieve the goal of stopping sequestration from taking effect in January 2013:
“When the U.S. stops being the strongest player in the world our allies stop looking to us because we really can’t protect them.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact: Julia Thornton |
September 12, 2012 | 202-525-0182 |
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (PA-03) issued the following statement on the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and the U.S. Embassy in Egypt: