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August 18, 2026

PENN HILLS, PA – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) was in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania to celebrate that he secured $850,000 in federal funding for the Verona Road Bridge Replacement in Penn Hills. At the check presentation and press conference, Congressman Deluzio was joined by State Representative Joe McAndrew, Penn Hills Mayor Pauline Calabrese, Jason Zang, District Executive for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) Engineering District 11, and other Penn Hills and Verona leaders.


August 17, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12), and Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-03) introduced the new Oversight Access Act of 2026. 


August 12, 2026

CENTER TOWNSHIP, PA – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) announced that Center Township in Beaver County, PA is receiving $999,000 for upgrades to their waterline infrastructure. This funding will pay for a section of replacement waterline. Replacing this waterline will improve water service and reduce maintenance work for the Township.


August 6, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Pennsylvania Congressmembers Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), and Summer Lee (PA-12) wrote letters to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the GEO Group, the for-profit prison corporation that owns and operates Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC) in Philipsburg, PA, to demand answers on GEO’s failure to comply with federal standards of adequate staffing and medical care to detainees, as well as obstruction of congressional oversight. 


August 5, 2026

CARNEGIE, PA – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) celebrated the news that Amtrak will add a second daily train to the Pennsylvanian route later this year. Outgoing Amtrak President Roger Harris made the announcement in a July 29th Board Meeting. The Pennsylvanian route connects Pittsburgh to New York City via Harrisburg and Philadelphia.


July 27, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17) announced his new Build America Plan to reindustrialize America and grow solid manufacturing jobs. Congressman Deluzio’s plan rejects the era of half-measures and piecemeal tax credits. Instead, it lays out a real industrial strategy to rebuild American manufacturing, invest in skilled workers, and make foreign polluters pay instead of letting them undercut cleaner, American-made products.


July 22, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After initially voting against the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the House Armed Services Committee, Navy and Iraq War veteran Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) will again vote 'no’ on the NDAA in today's House Floor vote.


July 22, 2026

CARNEGIE, PA – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) announced that the Borough of Bellevue is receiving $720,000 for upgrades to their sewer infrastructure. This funding will pay for improvements to sanitary sewer infrastructure along Straw Avenue in Bellevue—an important move for public health and safety and the longevity of the wastewater system.


July 17, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Pat Ryan (NY-18), three co-chairs of the Monopoly Busters Caucus, are introducing the Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act, legislation to break up dominant meatpacking monopolies, rein in foreign-controlled corporate giants, and end unfair pricing practices that raise costs for American families and box out local farmers and ranchers.