News Releases

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 – Sens. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced legislation Tuesday to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs by allowing Americans to import safe, low-cost medicine from Canada. Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced a companion bill in the House. Both measures would authorize the secretary of Health and Human Services in two years to allow importation from other advanced...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following a bomb threat against the Jewish Community Centers in York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The threat came on the heels of an act of vandalism against a Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia this weekend.   "Today, I stand in solidarity with the Jewish community in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation following acts of hate and intimidation in Philadelphia, Harrisburg and other states. These cowardly...

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, introduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). A Supreme Court ruling in 2009 held that age discrimination claims must prove that discrimination was not just a motivating factor but the sole or overriding factor in an adverse...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) issued a statement following the Senate’s vote on a Congressional Review Act resolution related to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System: “Today, I voted against a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal regulations to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).  Both the rule and the procedure by which Republicans sought to reverse it were flawed, but overall, the need...

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are introducing the Stop Terrorists Operational Resources and Money (STORM) Act of 2017. This legislation would provide the President additional leverage in penalizing foreign governments that fail to shut down terrorist financiers and facilitators. The STORM Act would authorize the President to designate a country that is not adequately combating terrorism financing as...

Washington, D.C.  – Today, as Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau meets with President Trump for bilateral discussions, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is urging the President to act on his campaign promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Senator Casey stresses the importance of protecting American workers’ interests through improvements to NAFTA. Citing rules of origin provisions and investor-state dispute settlement rules, among other issues,...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following President Trump’s signing of an executive order to roll back rules on Wall Street. "During the campaign President Trump said he would be tough on Wall Street, then he filled his Administration with billionaires and bankers and now he's trying to roll back the rules put in place to prevent another economic crash like the one that occurred in 2008. "Rolling back rules for the same Wall Street banks whose...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following President Trump’s selection of a nominee for the Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Roberts, has moved far outside the mainstream and has too often favored big corporations at the expense of our workers and middle class families. I am concerned that far right groups presented an edict to Donald Trump when he was a candidate, demanding that he select a nominee from their approved...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is announcing today that he plans to vote “no” on the nominations of Rep. Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services and Steven Mnuchin for Secretary of the Treasury. Casey met with each of the nominees, reviewed their record, questioned them at Senate committee hearings as well as submitted follow up questions in writing to both in order to make this decision. Statements on the rationale on each decision are outlined...

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 his vote against Rex Tillerson’s nomination to be Secretary of State. “Secretary of State is one of the most consequential Cabinet nominations a President can make. He or she is the face of our Nation overseas, the leader of our diplomatic...

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following President Trump's latest Executive Order on refugees: “This reported executive action is contrary to our values and our security. If news reports are correct, it will mean turning away children fleeing barrel bombing in Syria, women and girls fleeing human rights violations in Sudan and Somalia, and brave people who risked their lives to work with our troops in Iraq. Preventing these vulnerable people from...

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive orders signed today: “President Trump’s actions today have grave potential effects on Pennsylvania communities. His order could strip needed resources from communities across the country, crippling funding for schools, depleting resources for domestic violence shelters and halting economic development projects. It would also turn our local police forces into a...

Washington, DC- At the Senate Finance Committee’s confirmation hearing of Representative Tom Price (R-GA) to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Representative Price doubled down on the Trump Administration’s far right plan to block grant Medicaid, which would result in $1 trillion in cuts and less services for Pennsylvania seniors, children and those with disabilities. President Trump promised to protect these vital programs during the campaign but has raced to...

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following the conformation of Representative Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: “Representative Mike Pompeo and I have a fundamental disagreements on some key policy issues, including the Iran nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This agreement cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon and it must be strictly enforced and constantly verified....

Washington, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following President Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and his recent steps to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “I support President Trump’s issuing of an executive orders that will pull the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and his recent steps to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). NAFTA has adversely...

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 his votes in favor of President Trump’s nominees for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security: "This afternoon I voted in favor of President Trump’s nominees for the Department of Defense, General James Mattis, and the Department...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is ready to announce after deliberations, hearings, and review of available paperwork that he will vote “no” on President-elect Trump’s Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator nominee Scott Pruitt. Below are statements on his rationale on each individual decision: On DeVos “After meeting with Betsy DeVos to...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination of Tom Price to be Secretary of Health and Human Services: "I appreciated the opportunity to meet with Representative Tom Price to discuss his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in addition to having the opportunity to question him at a hearing of the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP). During...

Washington, DC- U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement following the response by Betsy DeVos, the nominee to be Secretary of Education, to his question in which she said it would be “premature” to commit to enforcing the Obama Administration protections for campus sexual assault policies. Senator Casey introduced and passed into law the Campus SaVe Act, which put in place uniform reporting standards for campus sexual assaults on college campuses. “It is not...

Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) met with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Photo attached. Casey is releasing the below statement following their meeting at the Senator’s D.C. office. “I appreciated the opportunity to meet with Vice President-elect Mike Pence today to discuss the challenges facing our nation. I expressed to Vice President-elect Pence my desire to work in a bipartisan fashion with the incoming Administration on a plan to make a substantial, new...