District Round-up 03.01.26
Dear Neighbor, Thank you for reading my District Round-up. As your candidate for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, it is my honor and pleasure to deliver to you where I’ve been and what issues I’ve tackled in the past week. Criss-crossing the counties of Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Cumberland, and Somerset gives me great opportunities to meet with voters, hear what is on your hearts and minds, and the chance to voice my fight for Everyday Americans. If you would like to contribute to my campaign, please donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/beth-farnham-for-congress-1
Many thanks for a fantastic meeting of Democrats at The Links at Gettysburg on Sunday. I met several voters who enthusiastically signed my petitions in order to appear on the Democratic primary ballot for the May 19th Primary Election.
Together, we CHOOSE DEMOCRACY!
On Tuesday, while our convicted felon of a president yammered incessantly last night about the people he hates, I spoke to voters at the Bedford County Democratic Committee meeting and soup contest about:
– protecting our sacred right to vote,
– expanding our freedom to create the families we choose,
– raising the federal minimum wage from a poverty wage to a livable one,
– and more.
It was a great night of soup and spirit.
Meanwhile, in two PA House Districts, Democrats retained their seats with eye-popping outperformances of +34 and +17.
This is because voters in that area recognize what a colossal threat the Republican party under Trump is to our beloved Keystone State.
And so they’re voting accordingly.
Together, we #ChooseDemocracy
Photo credit: Bedford Dems
Photo credits: Jack Stansbury
IT’S STILL PETITION SEASON!!
PLEASE GET THOSE SIGNATURES OF SUPPORT FOR THE CANDIDATES YOU WANT TO SEE ON YOUR PRIMARY BALLOT.
Because candidates in Pennsylvania need signatures of support to appear on the ballots for the primary election, it is important to connect with the different county Democratic committees in order to learn about petition signing events or how to circulate a petition. I need 1000 signatures, for example, as do Governor Josh Shapiro and Lt. Governor Austin Davis in order to appear on the Democratic ballot of the May 19th Primary Election.
Please follow the link below in order to reach out to the committee of the county in which you reside:
Because Republicans in Congress refuse to honor their oaths to the US Constitution and therefore, the American People, they let a rogue president begin a war that was not in his power to do, unleashing more violence and much instability around the world.
Enjoy those low gas prices and stock market highs while they last.
You can fire our Trumpian bootlicker of a US Representative by voting for me in the general election in November.
You can send a strong message before then by voting for me in the Primary election.
Registered Democrats, I’ll be on our ballot so please vote for me.
Registered Republicans – write in my name on your Republican primary ballot and fill in the corresponding oval instead of voting for Traitor Joyce!
Together, we #ChooseDemocracy not autocracy!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/business/energy-environment/oil-gas-iran-attack.html
This weekend has been a whirlwind of petition signings and refreshments, petition signings and pancakes, petition signings and soup, and petition signings and chili. Many, many thanks to Blair, Perry, Mifflin, and Franklin County Democratic Committees for their excellent events that saw great attendance and full tummies. Together, we #ChooseDemocracy! and good food!
Photo credits: Eileen Roberts, Jack Stansbury, Christina Palensky
Can you guess who used my microphone today?
Together, we #ChooseDemocracy!
Legislative Comparison
Check out how Joyce recently voted, how I would have voted in comparison and why!
| Legislation | Joyce’s vote | US House Result | How Beth would have voted | Rationale for Beth’s vote |
| HR 4758 – Homeowner Energy Freedom Act | Yes | Passed | No | This Bill repeals many home efficiency programs that helped homeowners save energy by ending: the high-efficiency electric home rebate program, efficiency contractor training grants, funding for specific state building codes. |
| HR 4626 – Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act | Yes | Passed | No | The Bill eliminates the DOE look back for reviewing and making periodic standards every six years in addition to revoking standards of efficiency. |
| HR 6329 – Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025 | Yes | Passed | Yes | It’s just common sense to for the Office of Management and Budget to revise policy and require federal agencies to rely on the best reasonably available information and evidence. |
| S 2503 – Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform (ROTOR) Act | No | Failed | Yes | Relatives of those killed in the January 2025 crash supported this bipartisan Senate Bill because it is more stringent than the Graves House Bill. |
| HR 2189 – Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act | Yes | Passed | No | While less-than-lethal weapons are ostensibly less lethal than many firearms, they can still be lethal, especially when converted through kits designed for that pu rpose. Repealing the power of the Gun Control Act to now allow convicted criminals, including domestic abusers, to create these “ghost guns” increases danger to American communities, especially by those who have not changed their ways. |
| H J Res 72 – Relating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025 | No | Passed | Yes | Agree with Rep. Bacon that Trump’s unjustified tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada “have been a ‘net negative’ for the economy and are a significant tax that American consumers, manufacturers, and farmers are paying.” and that “Article I of the Constitution places authority over taxes and tariffs with Congress for a reason, but for too long, we have handed that authority to the executive branch. It’s time for Congress to reclaim that responsibility.” |
| S 1383 – Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act | Yes | Passed | No | Suppresses the votes of married women especially whose names do not match those on their birth certificates by requiring passports as proof of citizenship instead, in the event of registration for change of address, name change, change of political party, or unjust removal from voter rolls. Cost and burden of passport is virtually poll tax with disparate impact against women. |
| HR 1531 – Pressure Regulatory Organizations To End Chinese Threats to (PROTECT) Taiwan Act | Yes | Passed | Yes | Requires Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to exclude China from the Group of Twenty; the Bank for International Settlements; the Financial Stability Board; the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision; the International Association of Insurance Supervisors; and the International Organization of Securities Commissions, if China poses threat to Tawain or US interests. |
| HR 6644 – To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes | Yes | Passed | Yes | Expanding available finance programs for affordable housing. Restricts veterans’ disability benefits from being considered as source of income. |
| H J Res 142 – Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 | Yes | Passed | No | OBBBA decreased DC’s “overall stability and revenue streams of economic base” and the decoupling was allowable through Home Rule. |
| HR 4090 – Critical Mineral Dominance Act | Yes | Passed | No | Sweetheart deals to foreign mining corporations is contrary to American interests and security. Nor should we violate our protected public and tribal lands to do it. |
| HR 7148 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 | Yes | Passed | No | Because there has been no correction of masked agents of I.C.E. using lethal force for imaginary reasons, I.C.E. must be abolished. It is unconscionable that the United States keep supplying funding to masked agents of the state who murder Americans on our public streets with no accountability. This is contrary to ideals born of the American Revolution. |
| HR 3123 – Ernest Peltz Accrued Veterans Benefits Act | Yes | Passed | Yes | Living dependents of the veteran who died deserve the pension payment that was destined to him/her, yet unpaid. |
If you’re like me, you love this country as much as I do and work to make a positive difference. In the midst of this Constitutional Crisis, please consider reaching out to your local Democratic committees or Democratic candidates so that we can strengthen our Democracy instead of letting it slide into fascism.
We don’t just #ChooseDemocracy, we choose Pennsylvania, we choose The United States of America, we choose Humanity and I am deeply glad to work along side you.
Sincerely,
Beth
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