Dwight Evans for Congress
Recent News About Dwight Evans for Congress
Evans Votes for Landmark Gun Safety Bill to Save Lives
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3rd) voted today for the first major gun safety bill to pass both houses of Congress in nearly 30 years.
Dwight Evans: Facebook Twitter Email ‘Since when is getting your mail a privilege?’: Germantown residents rally for better mail service
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Germantown residents are fed up with their local mail service.“Hi-de, hi-de, hi-de-ho, post office management has got to go,” about 20 people chanted outside the post office at 5209 Greene Street on Saturday morning.
Dwight Evans: Local legislators see bipartisan gun deal as important first step
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Legislators in the Philadelphia region were tentatively optimistic about a bipartisan Senate agreement on gun safety announced on Sunday, saying it was a step in the right direction.
Dwight Evans: Homeland Security Today: Coast Guard Hosts Elected Official Staff Members to Demonstrate Mission Readiness, Response Capabilities in Delaware Bay
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Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay hosted Pennsylvania elected official staff members Friday for a mission brief and demonstration of safety and security response capabilities in the Delaware Bay.
Dwight Evans: The Philadelphia Tribune: U.S. Congress looking into credit report errors, disputes
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The U.S. Congress is looking into mistakes on credit reports and how disputes are being handled by all three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, as a result of payment deferment programs and rising cases of identity theft during the pandemic.
Dwight Evans: Russian bans most of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation
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At least 29 Pennsylvanians are among the nearly 1,000 Americans banned from entering Russia, according to an updated list the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry released over the weekend.
Dwight Evans: Insurance NewsNet: Rep. Pressley Introduces Bill on Coverage for Over-The-Counter Contraceptives
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (H.R. 7894) to “require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives.”
Dwight Evans: Dhaka Tribune: Bangladesh eager for greater engagement with the US
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The delegation from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has conveyed Bangladesh’s eagerness to further strengthen existing bilateral relations with the United States.
Evans Requests Over $22 Million for 15 Community Projects
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3rd) is requesting a total of $22,275,000 in federal funding for 15 Philadelphia community projects.
Dwight Evans: Here’s what Pa. members of Congress have said about the Texas school shooting
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Nineteen children and two teachers were killed and several other children were shot and injured in a fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday.
Dwight Evans: Fight for abortion rights to shift to states, U.S. Congress
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The fight for abortion rights is shifting to the U.S. Congress, state legislatures and the governor’s offices in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation, Democratic activists said this week, after a preliminary vote of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and abortion rights was leaked to the news media.
Dwight Evans: NAACP blasts draft abortion decision: ‘The fight is on’
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a statement on Tuesday blasting the Supreme Court’s leaked drafted opinion to reverse the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Dwight Evans: How Philly and Pa. officials are reacting to the Supreme Court abortion leak
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Politico on Monday night leaked a draft of a United States Supreme Court opinion that indicates the nation’s highest court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that has guaranteed the right to an abortion in the U.S. for nearly five decades.
Dwight Evans: Biden on leaked draft opinion on abortion: The ‘right to choose is fundamental’
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration “will be ready when any ruling is issued” on abortion rights, after the nation was rocked by the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that confirmed the court is planning to overturn access to abortion.
Evans: Senate Must Pass Women’s Health Protection Act
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) today renewed his call for the U.S. Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, a House-passed bill he voted for that would put Roe v. Wade’s protections for abortion rights into federal law.
Evans, Casey Honor LGBTQ Pioneer Dr. John Fryer
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) have introduced resolutions to honor the life and work of Dr. John Fryer, an LGBTQ rights activist from Philadelphia who played a central role in moving the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to delist homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Dwight Evans: The Enterprise Center Gets $1 Million To Help Revitalize 52nd Street In West Philadelphia
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Local officials are helping to breathe new life into a commercial corridor in West Philadelphia.
Evans, Scanlon announce $9.8 million federal grant for 2 new SEPTA bus centers in South Philadelphia
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Congressman Dwight Evans (D-3rd Dist.) and Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (D-5th Dist.) last week announced a $9.8 million federal grant for SEPTA to design and construct two dedicated end-of-route bus layover facilities at two locations in South Philadelphia.
Dwight Evans: The Enterprise Center gets $1 million in new federal funding to help revitalize West Philly’s historic 52nd Street corridor
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Another $1 million is being dedicated to help revitalize the 52nd Street business corridor, a historic cluster of Black commerce and culture in West Philadelphia.
