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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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Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today gave his first address on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, where he called for Democrats take up an appropriations package that will fund the border wall and bring an end to the government shutdown.
Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today released the following video message commemorating the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Today, September 11th, we remember what happened 18 years ago in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, here in Washington at the Pentagon, and of course, in New York City. Our resolve is to fight terrorism, which is why I serve you on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Chambersburg, PA This morning, Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13) held a roundtable discussion with Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Regional Administrator Cosmo Servidio, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and community leaders to discuss municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) stormwater permits.
Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today brought Somerset County farmer Glenn Stoltzfus before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship to testify about the issues facing the dairy industry. Joyce is the ranking member on the subcommittee and Stoltzfus is the first constituent witness the 13th District lawmaker has invited to Washington.
Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today was named Ranking Member of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade and Entrepreneurship.
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.
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.