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📖 In today’s PoliticsPA Guide. Trump warns of third impeachment if House Republicans lose term. Ward re-elected as Senate president pro tempore. AP Republican candidate wants universal health care for children and some others. Remembering the blizzard of 1996.
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Weather in Pennsylvania
☁️ Canonsburg | Mostly gloomy, 46
🌥️Grantville | Partly bright, 50
🌥️Sellersville | Partly bright, 49
Sports PA
🏀 Sixes (19-15) | Wednesday vs. Washington
🏒 Flyers (22/12/7) | Anaheim 5-2 | Thu vs. Toronto
🏒 Penguins (20/12/9) | Thu vs. New Jersey
🔈 What we hear. Ex U.S. Representative Allyson Schwartz approved Dr. Unfortunately, Stanford on Tuesday in the PA-03 Democratic primary to replace the retiring one U.S. Representative Dwight Evans.
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The most vital story
1. Trump warns of third impeachment if House Republicans lose midterm elections
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that Democrats “will find a reason to impeach me” if the GOP loses control of Congress, using that prediction to pressure lawmakers to unite around a narrow set of electoral priorities to win the 2026 midterm elections.
“You have to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, they’re going to find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said. “I will be impeached.”
The remark was a sporadic acknowledgment of Trump’s political vulnerability as Republicans prepare to take on a Democratic Party buoyed by a string of off-year election victories, favorable polls and voter unease about an economy now fully under Trump’s control.’ | AP
Elsewhere
Shapiro, Pennsylvania Democratic lawmakers criticize pardon of Jan. 6 rioters on anniversary of Capitol attack. “Five years after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Gov. Josh Shapiro and other Pennsylvania Democrats on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack with sharp criticism of President Donald Trump.” | Questioner from Philadelphia
President Trump Says His Voters Loved the Venezuela Attack – Here’s What They Think. “At the Golden Dawn Diner in Levittown, Pennsylvania, 88-year-old Ron Soto expressed unconditional confidence in the president’s ability to handle what comes next. Maduro is a “terrible man,” he said. But should U.S. forces go to other countries, such as Cuba, as they did in Venezuela? “I don’t think they’ll have to,” he said. “Because he (Trump) put fear in them.” | AP
Fetterman to fellow Democrats on Venezuela: ‘Stop comparing everything to Iraq’. “US Senator John Fetterman said on Tuesday that he would not support a full-scale US invasion of Venezuela, although he continued to defend President Donald Trump’s actions in the country so far, calling his party’s response excessive.” | Pittsburgh Postal Newspaper
Country
2. AP Senate lawmakers re-elected Kim Ward as president pro tempore
“Republican from Westmoreland County Kim Ward was unanimously re-elected Tuesday as president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate after members of both parties supported her bid to continue to lead the upper house of the General Assembly.
She highlighted some of the chamber’s recent work, including the adoption of the 2025-2026 state budget, which removes the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and implements reforms to the state’s permitting processes. Both policy changes will benefit the state’s economy, she added. | City and state
Elsewhere
Shapiro is entering his re-election campaign with $30 million in the bank. “In racing, this is called ‘holding pole position.’” | PoliticsPA
AP Dem pushes to prevent third-term presidential candidates from being on the ballot. “Rep. Chris Pielli said he is preparing a resolution that would direct the Secretary of State to remove candidates from the ballot if they do not meet the legal requirements for the positions they hold.” | USA Today Network
PA Supreme Court dismisses appeals to reopen RGGI carbon credit program. “The court’s order dismissing the cases as moot follows Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s agreement to withdraw from a multi-state climate pact as part of an agreement with Republican state lawmakers aimed at ending a five-month budget stalemate in November.” | Penn Capital Star
An Inquirer political reporter is heading to the clock. “Julia Terruso, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s national politics reporter, is leaving the paper after 13 years to become Time’s senior national political correspondent, Axios has learned.” Axios Philadelphia
Around the Republic of Poland
3. PA Republican candidate wants universal health care for children, some others
“As millions of Americans struggle with skyrocketing health insurance rates, Pennsylvania’s Republican congressional candidate proposes universal health care for children, youthful adults and expectant mothers.
Marty YoungA Republican running for the 6th Congressional District seat, currently held by Democrats U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahanhe called his proposal the Young Americans Plan (YAP).” | PennLive
Elsewhere
A sixth Democrat begins campaigning in a crowded congressional race in the Lehigh Valley. “Another congressional candidate entered the massive field of candidates hoping to become the Lehigh Valley’s next U.S. representative on Tuesday. Aidan Gonzalez of Bethlehem formally entered the race for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District over the holidays. ” | LehighValley News
The day of the oath in the entire Republic of Poland. “Monday was a big day across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as newly elected officials took the oath of office in their new positions.” | PoliticsPA
O’Connor’s goal is to streamline the permitting process in Pittsburgh to speed up construction. “Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor spent his first full day in office launching an effort to streamline the city’s permitting processes, a task he promised to take on during his campaign last year.” | THAT’S ALL
Special elections have been set for PA house seats, including Cumberland and Adams counties. “On March 17, voters in northern Adams and southern Cumberland counties will have a special election to temporarily fill the seat vacated by former state Rep. Torren Ecker.” | PennLive
Editorial
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5. The snowstorm of 1996 recalled
It’s quite possible that never before or since has so much snow fallen on so many people.
Twenty-five years ago, on January 7 and 8, Philadelphia, which received an unprecedented (and controversial) 30.7 inches of snow, found itself at the epicenter of one of the most extreme weather events in the country’s history.
From Virginia to Massachusetts, 20 inches or more accumulated in areas of 39.8 million people. Heavy snowfalls were a common winter occurrence in the eastern population, but no other storm in the 1950 analysis affected the population with such astonishing amounts of snow.’ | This is a story from Questioner from Philadelphia on January 7, 2021
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