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After practicing medicine in Pennsylvania for over 25 years, Congressman John Joyce came to Congress to fight for every Pennsylvanian in the 13th Congressional District. He is working to defend our Constitutional rights, rebuild our economy, improve our health care system, strengthen our national security, stand up for our farmers and agriculture community, defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, and create American jobs for American workers by bringing family-sustaining jobs home to Pennsylvania.
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Joyce: Constituents want him to follow President Trump's agenda
Freshman U.S. Rep. John Joyce started his tenure in Washington amid the second-longest partial government shutdown.
"Yet I am up for the challenge," Joyce said in a telephone interview from the nation's capital Tuesday. "This is a special set of circumstances, and yet I still feel I need to address these issues the people from Somerset sent me to Washington to do."
Joyce, a Republican from Altoona, was sworn into office Thursday.
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Berlin farmer testifies before congressional subcommittee
A Berlin-area farmer testified before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship about issues facing the dairy industry.
Glenn Stoltzfus was invited by U.S. Rep. John Joyce to testify during Tuesday's hearing. He is the first constituent witness Joyce invited to Washington.
Congressman John Joyce: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act deserves a vote
Chambersburg Public Opinion
The Hippocratic Oath as originally translated calls on physicians to protect life and instructs them never to perform an abortion.
Congressman John Joyce: No one can shut down the people's house
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
When I review how the framers of the Constitution wanted our government to be established, I realize that the House of Representatives is truly the people's house andndash; a house that should be composed of farmers, businessmen and yes, even doctors.
Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today joined Mark Meadows and other House Republicans in an effort to ensure more transparency regarding H.R. 1, an ethics reform measure the Democrats are bringing to the floor this week that would require taxpayer dollars be used to fund political campaigns.
GOP calls for border wall as payday dries up
The weekend marked two dubious landmarks in the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government: The shutdown became the longest in U.S. history, and thousands of federal workers across Pennsylvania received their first $0 paychecks.
Congressmen push for CWD funding
Joyce, Thompson seek federal money for research into cure
Two area congressmen are pushing for federal funding to find a cure for chronic wasting disease.
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-13th District, and U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-15th District, introduced the Chronic Wasting Dis ease Research Act on Friday, which would authorize $15 million in federal funding to states, higher education institutions and other entities researching a cure for CWD.