Press Releases
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-02) released the following statement in response to U.S. airstrikes in Syria, after a horrific chemical weapons attack executed by Bashar al-Assad and the Assad Regime:
"My heart breaks for the men, women and children in Syria who have been impacted by the continuous brutal attacks perpetrated by Assad and his regime," Congressman Dwight Evans said. "This week's horrendous attack was yet another atrocity in the Assad regime's string of deadly attacks on the Syrian people."
Washington, D.C. -- Last week, Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-02) cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender pay gap in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Today is Equal Pay Day, a day that represents the amount of time it takes for women's wages to finally catch up to what men earned the previous year. Nationwide, women still earn about 80 cents for every dollar men earn.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans, Congresswoman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS), and Congressman Rod Blum (R-IA) recently joined together to introduce H.R. 1702, the Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) Improvement Act of 2017.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans will host his first Town Hall, in his series of Town Hall and community meetings throughout the Second Congressional District on Sunday, April 2.
Congressman Dwight Evans is inviting all residents in Pennsylvania's Second Congressional District to join him for a Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, April 2 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at Drexel University. The meeting will take place in the Bossone Research Center's Mitchell Auditorium located at 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans released the following statement after House Republicans, under the leadership of Speaker Ryan and President Trump, pulled the American Health Care Act (AHCA) from the House floor.
House Republicans have officially pulled their flawed health care bill from the house floor, because even though they control Congress and the White House, they simply do not have the votes to pass the bill in the House. It became clear that after seven years of working hard to undermine the Affordable Care Act, they did not have a replacement, only excuses
Washington, D.C -- Today, members of the Executive Committee of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) met with President Trump at the White House to discuss the key issues plaguing the African American community.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans released the following statement in response to President Trump's first budget proposal.
In reading through the new budget proposal I am reminded of a question President Trump asked this summer when he was speaking to the African American community at a rally in Philadelphia. The President asked the question: "What do you have to lose?"
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans released the following statement after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported this week that under the Republican health care law 14 million Americans stand to lose their health care in 2018.
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans spoke on the House Floor today to highlight the number of people in the Second Congressional District who stand to lose their health coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.
Here is what repealing the Affordable Care Act means for Pennsylvania's Second Congressional District:
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Dwight Evans released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act: