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On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a plan to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure by helping them substitute high interest mortgages for affordable, federally backed mortgages. The House approved the plan by a vote of 266-154. Thirty-nine Republicans joined Democrats in backing the bill.

Representative Joe Pitts, who's congressional district includes all of Lancaster County, voted against the plan but was silent when the Administration bailed out a major investment firm six-weeks ago. Pitts views the bill as a bailout for irresponsible borrowers. Read more...

The House of Representatives has passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, H.R. 5351, which will end unnecessary subsidies to Big Oil companies and invest in clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Joe Pitts voted NO to this Bill, I support the legislation. Read more...

Representative Joe Pitts hit a 4-term high of 10 on his League of Conservation Voters ratings. Pitts’ LCV scores expose the real record behind the rhetoric: a lifetime pattern of voting with polluters and special interests or ducking the important votes. Read more about Bruce Slater's stand on the environment...

View Joe Pitts' record on the environment...

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The House of Representatives has passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, H.R. 5351, which will end unnecessary subsidies to Big Oil companies and invest in clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The bill will expand tax incentives for renewable electricity, energy and fuel, as well as for plug-in hybrid cars, and energy efficient homes, buildings, and appliances. These provisions will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. It will preserve existing jobs: a recent study showed that allowing the renewable energy incentives to expire would lead to about 116,000 jobs being lost in the wind and solar industries through the end of 2009.

Joe Pitts, the 16th district's Congressman, voted in lock-step with big-oil and his friends at the Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, which until recently he served on the Board of Directors. He voted no. Read more about the House legislation...

John McCain was the only Senator who two weeks ago chose to skip a crucial vote on the future of clean energy in America -- dooming the measure to fail by just a single vote. This is a pattern with Senator McCain. On the League of Conservation Voters scorecard he received a 0 for missing the 15 most important environmental votes in 2007. McCain's score of 0 is lower than members of Congress who died last year.

PA Senator Casey, on the other hand, has a 100 score for environmental legislation in 2007.  Senator Clinton voted positively on all environmental legislation but missed 4 votes, which lowered her score to 73.  Senator Obama voted positively on all but one of the environmental bills and missed 4 votes for a score of 67.

Representative Joe Pitts (PA-16) hit a 4-term high of 10 on his LCV ratings. Pitts’ and McCain’s LCV scores expose the real record behind the rhetoric: a lifetime pattern of voting with polluters and special interests or ducking the important votes.

View Joe Pitts' record on the environment...

Pork-barrel Pitts
by Bruce Slater

Recently the New Era (Lancaster)  carried another accusation by Joe Pitts.  Like prior commentaries in this newspaper and others in Chester County, Mr. Pitts once again accuses the Democrats for all that goes wrong in Congress.  He repeats the same bottom line:  The Democrats are guilty again; the Democrats did it again; it is the fault of the Democrats that nothing gets done; it is the fault of the Democrats that spending is too high!

Does Mr. Pitts ever proof read or try remembering what his staff puts in front of him to sign?  Allocating fault along party lines is an old song.  The tune is getting tiresome. Read more...

Bruce Slater, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District, hand-carried 135 nomination petitions to Pennsylvania’s filing office in Harrisburg on Monday, February 11th.  Slater overwhelmed the Department of State officials responsible for counting signatures by producing over 2700 signatures on his petitions which were collected in Lancaster, Chester, and Berks Counties.  Read more...