News Releases

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement regarding President Trump’s summit with President Xi of China. Earlier this week, Senator Casey led a letter to President Trump identifying areas of trade policy that should be raised with China. Senator Casey’s statement and earlier letter are below. “During his summit with President Xi, President Trump failed to hold China accountable for its cheating on trade. Earlier this week, I led a letter with several...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), a member of the National Security Working Group and former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, released a statement following the recent U.S. action in Syria: ”The targeted actions taken last night are an appropriate and proportionate response to a heinous attack by the Assad regime on Syrian civilians. As I have said before, Bashar al-Assad is a war criminal who has...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and 20 of his Senate colleagues penned a bipartisan letter calling for robust funding for the Essential Air Service Program (EAS). The EAS Program, funded through the U.S Department of Transportation (USDOT), provides critical air service that connects rural and remote areas to major hubs, helping to grow area businesses and support economic growth. President Trump’s FY2018 budget proposal would eliminate funding for the program, which could...

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA, joined by ten Democratic Senators, reintroduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, which would increase environmental protections for communities where natural gas drilling takes place. Specifically the bill would require drillers to disclose the chemicals that go into the ground during the hydraulic fracturing process and close a 2005 loophole that prevents the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from...

Washington, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), joined by 11 Democratic Senators, released a letter today calling on President Trump to hold China accountable on trade during his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi. During the campaign, President Trump promised to get tough on China “on day one,” yet he has failed to take meaningful actions to blunt China’s cheating on trade. For workers with the deck stacked against them due to China’s cheating, the Senators called...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today marked Equal Pay Day and reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable. “Equal Pay Day is a vital reminder that we still have work to do to ensure that...

Washington, DC- 21 U.S. Senators, led by U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) have released a letter to Tom Price, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling on the Trump Administration to release a secret plan that was presented to the House Freedom Caucus. In a bid to win the far right group’s support, reports indicate that the Administration identified specific Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules that the Administration would gut in exchange for the Freedom...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement on President Trump's executive orders concerning trade: “I commend President Trump for taking these preliminary steps on trade, but it’s critical that he follow through on his promises by cracking down on countries that cheat and renegotiating bad trade deals. I have consistently opposed bad trade deals and called for action against countries, like China, that cheat on trade, yet congressional Republicans have...

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that he has reintroduced legislation, the Trash Reduction And Sensible Handling (TRASH) Act, to restrict the flow of out-of-state trash into Pennsylvania. The legislation would give states the ability to leverage their own solid waste management plans to create higher standards thereby restricting interstate waste imports. The bill would also allow states to impose higher fees on out of state waste. Trash Reduction And Sensible...

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced his decision to vote “no” on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court of The United States. Casey has used the weeks since the nomination was announced to thoroughly review of Judge Gorsuch’s record, meet with Gorsuch and judicial experts, and most recently reviewed his hours of testimony from his hearing. Below is a statement laying out Casey’s rationale on this decision: “In...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators representing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed blasted President Trump’s budget released Thursday that would zero out funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program and severely cut funding for other core programs to maintain and restore the health of the Bay, which is an economic lifeline for the region. Led by Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Casey, Jr. (D-Pa.), Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kirsten...

Washington, DC- Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, released a 50 State Report detailing the impacts of TrumpCare on older Americans. These individual state fact sheets make clear the consequences of TrumpCare’s irresponsible policies: imposing an age tax on those between the ages of 50-64 will cause premiums to skyrocket, reducing tax credits available to older Americans will make health care out of reach for millions, decimating...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement on President Trump's first budget proposal: "President Trump's budget is a series of broken promises to the people of Pennsylvania. Instead of keeping his commitment to fight for the middle class and Pennsylvania communities who deserve a fair shot, President Trump is pursuing the agenda of far right Congressional Republicans. "President Trump promised to pursue a substantial investment in our infrastructure- not only has he...

Washington, DC- Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that he is sending a letter to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), Walter M. Shaub, Jr, asking for OGE, the federal government’s ethics watchdog for the executive branch, to analyze the latest examples of President Trump’s conflicts of interest. President Trump refuses to divest his holdings as Presidents of both parties have done in the past, creating conflicts of interest that could see the interests...

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and Susan Collins (R-ME) announced that they have reintroduced legislation to aid the children of fallen first responders. The Children of Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act, increases the amount of Pell Grant money available to qualifying students who are the children of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMS workers, and fire police. If the child of a fallen first responder qualifies for...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), a member of the National Security Working Group and former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, released a statement following the issuance of President Trump’s new travel ban. "Many of our intelligence professionals and national security experts have said that blanket travel bans, which target individuals by country and religion, will not keep America safe, but...

Washington, D.C. - In the wake of new allegations of contacts between President Trump’s associates and Russian officials during the campaign and reports that Attorney General Sessions mislead the Senate Judiciary Committee about his interactions with Russian officials during his confirmation hearings, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is calling on Attorney General Sessions to recuse himself from the investigation and for the appointment of special counsel to probe President Trump’s ties...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), and other Democratic Members of the Senate Finance Committee today sent a letter urging Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to allow members to review President Trump’s tax returns, in light of the ongoing investigation into ties between Russia and Trump associates.  U.S. Senators, Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tom Carper (D-DE), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Michael...

Washington, DC – Following President Trump’s address to a Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released the following statement: “President Trump’s first 40 days in office have been an opportunity to keep his promises to workers and middle class families across Pennsylvania. His speech tonight did not demonstrate that he will. This evening, I was joined by a Pennsylvanian, Marine veteran Joe McGrath of Lafayette Hill, whose family will be directly...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tom Carper (D-DE), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) requesting the Miner’s Protection Act be attached to the statutorily-required waiver needed for the nomination of Mr. Robert Lighthizer...