Senator John Fetterman (D-PA)

When I receive my daily alerts regarding legislative activity of the four men who “represent” south central Pennsylvania, I’m constantly astonished by what I read on Substack, in political discourse on Facebook and LinkedIn, and on the news… about Senator JOHN FETTERMAN.
We have two representatives – John Joyce and Lloyd Smucker – who are valuable to the Republican party not because they are great legislators, but because they always vote the way they’re told to vote. We have a Senator in Dave McCormick who is a Romney Republican. Except unlike Romney, he’s not distancing himself from President Trump. McCormick will vote sanely on occasion, just often enough to give me hope. Then he quickly devolves into a toady for Donald Trump. His political future seems more important to him than justice.
Then we have John Fetterman. Gruff. Not PC. Plainspoken. We say we want politicians who do what they believe to be right, who will be like John McCain or Joe Biden and work both sides of the aisle.
Then when we get someone like that, we (“we” being Democrats in general, not me) castigate him for not toeing what “we” think the party line is. Our alleged big tent excludes people like Fetterman.
And I don’t get it.

FETTERMAN sits on the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. He's also a new member of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and is a continuing member of the U.S. Senate Mental Health Caucus.

Below is the legislative record for Sen. John Fetterman beginning with June 12, 2025. Highlighting critical legislation.

October 4, 2025-December 3, 2025:
August 23, 2025-October 3, 2025: Child Care for Working Families; Lowering Electric Bills Act, amending Trump's Big Bad Bill to reinstate tax credits for solar, wind, and other non-fossil fuel sources; Nationwide Right to Unionize; Tax Cuts for Striking Workers; Congressional Tribute to Constance Baker Motley Act of 2025 (a bill, not a resolution); Equal Employment for All Act of 2025, prohibiting use of credit scores as criterion for employment; restoring Head Start benefits that were cut in Trump's BBB; paid FMLA; nullification of executive orders that eliminated collective bargaining agreements; Billionaires Income Tax Act; and, two LGBTQIA+ bills.
August 2, 2025-August 22, 2025:
July 17, 2025-August 1, 2025: Increase funeral benefits for veterans and civil servants killed in the line of duty from $800 to $8000; Price Gouging Prevention Act; Payment Choice Act of 2025, to ensure that we can continue to pay with cash if we wish; Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act; EACH Act of 2025 (Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act); Stop the Scammers Act, keeping Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funded; EATS Act of 2025; and the biggie, John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025.
June 30, 2025-July 17, 2025:
June 12, 2025-June 30, 2025:

Photo of John Fetterman is public domain, official government photograph.

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