Day: May 16, 2023

Fetterman Statement: “I cannot in good conscience support a debt ceiling proposal that pushes people into poverty”

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman on Tuesday released the following statement: “Speaker McCarthy’s debt default plan would cut food assistance for nearly 40,000 people in Pennsylvania. This is just cruel. “No one I’ve ever met wants to stay on SNAP for life. They need it to make ends meet. I sure didn’t come to Washington to take vital assistance away from working people at the same time big

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Fetterman Slams Bank Execs for Greed at Hearing on Recent Bank Collapses

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman today slammed bank executives from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank at a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on the recent failures of their banks. Witnesses represented two of three banks that have been seized by regulators in the past two months. Senator Fetterman first criticized former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker for vacationing in Hawaii

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