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Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today announced the 2019 High School Congressional Art Competition for the 13th District of Pennsylvania. The United States House of Representatives sponsors this competition each spring to recognize and honor talented young artists from each congressional district across the country. Every school district in the 13th Congressional District is invited to submit one piece of student art to represent the artistic talents of its high school. More than 650,000 young artists have participated in the Congressional Art Competition since it began in 1982.

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today announced that he will cosponsor legislation this week to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax before it is reinstated for the 2020 calendar year. The tax, which was first implemented in 2013 as an effort to help fund the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act, applies to the price of medical devices large and small, including anything from MRI machines to surgical gloves. Lawmakers of both parties have voted multiple times since 2015 to temporarily halt the tax due to the problems it has caused patients and providers in the healthcare industry.

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today moved to offer a solution to an ongoing issue between the 13^th District hunting community and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, by cosponsoring legislation that would implement a federal study of Chronic Waste Disease (CWD).

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today opposed H.R. 8, a measure that would require an unprecedented expansion in background checks for all firearm sales. Later this week he will vote against H.R. 1112, additional legislation to make it harder to obtain a firearm from private retailers - Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs).

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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Read his full remarks:

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.

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today was named Ranking Member of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade and Entrepreneurship.

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today voted to advance the "Border Crisis Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2019," legislation that would increase funding for the purposes of addressing the security and humanitarian crisis on the southern border. Democrats blocked the proposal and later in the day passed a measure to grant amnesty to more than two million people instead.

Congressman John Joyce (PA-13) today voted against H.R. 9, legislation that would force the United States to reduce its carbon emissions without any guarantee that competing economic countries will do the same. The measure would reinstitute the emission standards that President Obama agreed to under the Paris Agreement on climate change, a deal President Trump removed the United States from in June of 2017.