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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) — Congressman Rob Bresnahan joined local healthcare leaders at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center to announce the release of $600 million in long-delayed FEMA Public Assistance funds for Pennsylvania healthcare providers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLAINS TWP. — Geisinger Health System received $192 million recently from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in delayed reimbursements for COVID-19 pandemic costs, officials said Friday at a news conference.
U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr., R-8, Dallas Twp., joined Dr. Terry Gilliland, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger Health, at Friday’s news conference at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pittsburgh, planned to attend but was unable due to a voting session in the Senate.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Congressman Rob Bresnahan is announcing new funding for healthcare providers.
The congressman spoke at Geisinger Wyoming Valley near Wilkes-Barre about the federal Emergency Management Agency's possible release of public assistance funding.
WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, June 3, U.S. Representative Rob Bresnahan, Jr. (PA-08) cosponsored the Nursing is a Professional Degree Act, legislation that would amend the Department of Education’s definition of “professional degree” to include nursing degrees. The cosponsorship is the latest action Rep. Bresnahan has taken in the push to expand the department’s definition of “professional degrees” and the access the definition offers the next generation of professionals.
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — It's an honor long overdue for Private First Class Thomas Barnes of Reeders.
At just 19 years old, Barnes was drafted into the Army. He served in Vietnam as an Army Ranger with the 101st Airborne Division.
Construction has begun on a previously undeveloped section of the D
U.S. Reps. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) and John Joyce (R-PA) this week highlighted federal disaster relief efforts for Pennsylvania farmers following a devastating freeze that damaged orchards and specialty crops across the commonwealth in April.
SCOTT TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) — Farmers, community leaders, and agricultural stakeholders met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Congressman Rob Bresnahan following a late-season April freeze that caused widespread damage to local agriculture.
After discussions on the freeze’s impact, Secretary Rollins signed a Secretarial Disaster Declaration for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Applewood Farm.
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee on May 22 voted 62-2 to advance a comprehensive, bipartisan roads and bridges bill led by Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) that includes several priorities supported by U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA).
SCOTT TWP. — U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan hosted U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Tuesday for a roundtable discussion with local farmers, community leaders, and agricultural stakeholders impacted by April’s devastating freeze.
Following the roundtable, Rep. Bresnahan and Secretary Rollins held a press conference, during which Secretary Rollins signed a Secretarial Disaster Declaration for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in response to a catastrophic freeze that struck Pennsylvania on April 20-21, 2026.