Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-07 since 2018
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Attorney
District: parts of the Philadelphia suburbs, including most of Delaware County, along with portions of Chester, Montgomery, Berks, and Lancaster Counties
Upcoming Election: Lost her seat in 2024 election

Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district after Charlie Dent resigned in 2018. From September 2022 to January 2023 , she was chair of the House Ethics Committee. She continues to sit on the committee as ranking member. She also co-chairs the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and is vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress.

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-08 since 2013
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer
District:   all of Wayne, Pike, and Lackawanna Counties; along with portions of Luzerne and Monroe counties anchored by Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and the Poconos.  
Upcoming Election: Lost his seat in the November 2024 election

For 24 years, Cartwright worked as an attorney and partner at Munley, Munley and Cartwright, a Scranton firm representing victims, consumers and small businesses in personal and business litigation.

Between 2005 and 2011, Cartwright was the on-air legal analyst for The Law & You. In the segment, aired nightly as part of NBC affiliate WBRE-TV’s evening newscast, he fielded viewer questions on legal matters.

Current Position: US Representative of PA District 1 since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Other Positions:  Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment, & Cyber; House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Fitzpatrick is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) supervisory special agent in California. At the FBI, he served as a national supervisor for the Bureau’s Public Corruption Unit, and led the agency’s Campaign Finance and Election Crimes Enforcement program. During his time in the FBI, he spent time in Kyiv, Ukraine; Mosul, Iraq; and Washington, D.C. He was embedded with U.S. Special Forces as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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The Great American Outdoors Act passed the House one year ago today! This landmark bipartisan legislation will preserve and protect our nation’s public lands for generations, and I am proud to have led this effort.
 
Rep. Gottheimer and Rep. Fitzpatrick on reaching bipartisan infrastructure plan

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

A fifth-generation Northeastern Pennsylvanian, Rob Bresnahan took the reins of his grandfather’s union electrical contracting company at age 19 and expanded the business across the commonwealth while tripling the number of good-paying union careers they provided to Pennsylvanians. Rob is focused on facing challenges head on to solve problems.

Rob won his race to become the congressman from PA -08.

Rob is committed to bringing people together and is uniquely qualified to send a jolt of energy through Congress and deliver results for everyone here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-09 since 2019
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: Businessman; Secretary of Revenue in the cabinet of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett
District:   east central part of the state and encompasses all of Bradford, Columbia, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Wyoming counties, as well as parts of Berks, Luzerne, and Lycoming counties. 
Upcoming Election:

He was previously president of the Pride Corporation, a manufacturer of motorized wheelchairs in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton metro area of Pennsylvania, and currently serves the company as a board member and consultant. He has testified before Congress regarding the criticality for federal practices surrounding rights and caring for the disabled.

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-16 since 2022
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: U.S. Army National Guard brigadier general and Contract Construction company
District:  central region of the state. It encompasses all of Dauphin County as well as parts of Cumberland County and York County. The district includes the cities of Harrisburg and York. 
Upcoming Election:

Perry was elected chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, the most conservative House Republican group. Perry participated in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. Perry attempted to replace Pennsylvania’s electors.

Perry and his family were on public assistance for several years during his youth. Perry began working at age 13, picking fruit at Ashcombe’s Farm in Mechanicsburg. Since then, he has worked as a mechanic, dock worker, draftsman and a licensed insurance agent, among other jobs. He graduated from Pennsylvania’s Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery.