WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Small Business Committee Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade held a hearing today entitled, “The Future of the Family Farm: The Effect of Proposed DOL Regulations on Small Business Producers.”  The purpose of the hearing...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Representative Mark S. Critz (PA-12) released the following statements in response to the Department of Justice’s decision to close the NDIC:  “The Obama Administration’s decision to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) released the following statement after voting this evening to support H.R. 3567, the Welfare Integrity Now for Children and Families Act of 2011, which requires states to prevent welfare recipients from accessing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and nine U.S. House members from Pennsylvania’s delegation sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today. The letter asks EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to consider the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. --Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded $825,280 to fire departments in Cambria, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland Counties through the Assistance to Firefighters federal grant program.   “Our first responders...

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure set to markup the surface transportation bill this week, Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) sent this letter to Chairman John Mica (FL-07) today, urging him to repeal the current toll...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) released the following statement after President Obama’s State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress: “As President Obama said, this is a make or break moment for the American middle...

JOHNSTOWN, PA --Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) will host a live telephone town hall meeting Tuesday evening, January 24, 2012, for 40,000 constituents of the 12th Congressional District in Cambria and Westmoreland Counties.  Later Tuesday evening, President Obama will provide...

JOHNSTOWN, PA -- Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) released the following statement in response to today’s announcement by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that his committee won't take up the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until "there is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Mark S. Critz (PA-12) announced today that he has been asked to join the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, a panel charged with seeking out waste, fraud, and inefficiencies within the...