Current Position: US Representative of PA District 2 since 2015
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: State Delegate from 2009 – 2015
District:   includes all of Northeast Philadelphia and parts of North Philadelphia east of Broad Street, as well as portions of Philadelphia’s River Wards. 
Upcoming Election:

After working for several years as a consultant with the United States Department of Defense, including Naval Sea Systems Command, he attended graduate school at Harvard Kennedy School, where he earned a Master of Public Policy.

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Dad immigrated to America when he was 19. Spent the next 50 years working in a warehouse and as a custodian. This week he attended the swearing-in ceremonies of both of his sons. Both @RepKevinBoyle
and I know we wouldn’t be where we are without his hard work & sacrifice.

Democratic Weekly Address — Congressman Brendan Boyle

Current Position: US Representative of PA District 3 since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: State Delegate from 1981 – 2016
District:   several areas of the city of Philadelphia, including West Philadelphia, most of Center City, and parts of North Philadelphia.
Upcoming Election:

Evans was elected as the Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 1990 and served in that capacity until November 2010. In 2010, the Philadelphia Tribune named Evans one of the 10 most influential African-Americans in the city.

Evans ran for mayor of Philadelphia twice. In 1999, in the race to succeed Ed Rendell, he finished fifth with 4.7% of the vote in a crowded primary won by John Street. In 2007, despite Rendell’s comment that Evans was the “best qualified” for mayor, he finished fifth again, taking only 7.82% of the vote.

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will proudly co-sponsor this #WealthTax bill that would raise an estimated $2.75 TRILLION over 10 years from just 75,000 families. We could use this for badly needed, job-creating #infrastructure repairs to our schools, housing, transit, roads and more!

Business, Politics & Public Policy: Interview with Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA)

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-17 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer; Pennsylvania House of Representatives 153rd district from 2012 to 2018
District: the majority of Montgomery County and most of Berks County northeast of Reading in southeastern Pennsylvania.     
Upcoming Election:

After law school, Dean returned to the Philadelphia area and practiced law with the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers, going on to serve as executive director. She then opened a small, three-woman law practice in Glenside, and served as in-house counsel for her husband’s growing bicycle business.

She served 10 years as an assistant professor of English at her alma mater, La Salle University, in Philadelphia, where she taught writing and ethics.

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-17 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer
District:  all of Delaware County, an exclave of Chester County, a small portion of southern Montgomery County and a section of southern Philadelphia 
Upcoming Election:

In 1985, Scanlon represented a sexually abused 11-year-old girl in a dependency case. This experience made Scanlon decide to pursue a career in public interest law.

Scanlon served as an attorney with the Education Law Center of Philadelphia, helping implement special education laws, before joining Ballard Spahr as pro bono counsel. There she helped coordinate the provision of free legal services to low-income recipients. She partnered with the Wills for Heroes Foundation, providing legal documents free of charge to first responders. She helped a young woman from Guinea who had sickle-cell disease obtain permanent residency.

In 2006, she was appointed vice chair of the Tax Commission. The following year, she joined the board of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District and served as its president from 2009 to 2011. She continued as a member of the board until 2015.

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-06 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Engineer, and former United States Air Force officer
District: portion of Berks County including the city of Reading and its southeastern suburbs.     
Upcoming Election:

Houlahan, citing her idols as Indiana Jones and Sally Ride, earned her bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Stanford University. Houlahan spent three years on United States Air Force active duty at Hanscom Air Force Base. There, she served as a project manager working on air and space defense technologies.

Houlahan went to work for the start-up sportswear company AND1 as Chief Operating Officer. Houlahan became Chief Operating Officer of B-Lab, a non-profit start-up, when AND1 was sold. She joined Springboard Collaborative, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit focusing on early childhood literacy in underserved populations nationwide serving as both president and CFO/COO

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-12 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer; Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 34th district from 2019 to 2022
District:   southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh and much of Allegheny County, as well as some of Westmoreland County.
Upcoming Election:

Lee became the first black woman to represent Southwestern Pennsylvania in the state legislature. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries after graduating.

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-17 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer, Policy Director at Pitt Cyber and previously at the Brennan Center for Justice; Officer in the Navy
District:   southwestern Pennsylvania, which includes the entirety of Beaver County and the northwestern parts of Allegheny County not part of the 12th district. 
Upcoming Election:

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Deluzio deployed to Iraq as a naval officer from 2006 to 2012. He later worked as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City before joining the Brennan Center of Justice to work on voting rights and election security issues.

Deluzio was then named a legal and policy scholar of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.