Op-Eds
FOX NEWS | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK Twenty-five years ago today, 40 men and women showed uncommon courage on Flight 93. Today, we honor their sacrifice and their example on a field of honor forever in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. On the morning of 9/11, I was in...
THE NEW YORK POST | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK This week I’m welcoming President Donald Trump to Pennsylvania for an unprecedented gathering. For the first time, the US defense industry will recognize that achieving the president’s goal of sustainable peace through strength demands new players and...
FOX NEWS | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK Trump Accounts give 25 million American children a real ownership stake in the economy Last week, my friend Senator John Fetterman and I stood on a court at the 6th Man Center — a Philadelphia Youth Basketball facility in...
FOX NEWS | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK The costs of inaction are clear — risks to consumers and a growing likelihood that this burgeoning industry will move off-shore Prediction markets are on fire. Last year, there was about $51 billion in total transaction volume on prediction markets....
THE NEW YORK POST | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK Over the next six months, Congress has a historic chance to deliver an energy and economic bonanza — by overhauling America’s broken permitting system. President Donald Trump has already led the way, cutting red tape and pulling in record investment....
The Philadelphia Inquirer | By: Senator Dave McCormick and Senator John Fetterman When we were teenagers growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Americans typically bought their first home at the age of 29. Now, first-time home buyers tend to be in their 40s. As U.S. senators from...
The spending crisis in Washington is dire, and elected officials aren’t doing enough about it. WALL STREET JOURNAL | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK My first year in the U.S. Senate gave me a crash course on how Washington works. It isn’t pretty. I arrived last year...
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE | BY: DAVE MCCORMICK Seven hours a day. Nineteen days in a row. The military veterans at Aurelius cycle through hyperbaric chambers, transcranial stimulation, and intense physical exercise. Most were special operators. All suffer from depression and anxiety, headaches, insomnia, or other cognitive...
Last Thursday, I stood in the Oval Office with my House colleagues Mike Kelly and Dan Meuser. President Trump had invited us to discuss the proposed partnership between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel. As the President weighed his choices, I repeated what I’ve been saying...
If you asked people on the street at random what they see when they think of energy production, you’d probably get answers ranging from oil rigs in West Texas and wind turbines across the Midwest to solar panels in California and coal mines in West...