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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) appeared to tear up as he got emotional during a hearing as he reflected on how Republicans “ridiculed and made fun of” him over his disability. During a committee hearing on Thursday, where witnesses with disabilities testified, Fetterman said disabilities and accessibility have been a “very personal issue” and showed an iPhone transcription app he relies on to communicate with others. Since Fetterman’s stroke in the weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania Democrat senate primary, he has had trouble with his speech. The freshman Senator from Pennsylvania suffered a stroke just days before the Democrat primary...

Democrat Senator John Fetterman responds to concerns over changing the Senate dress code to accommodate his hoodies and gym shorts: "Her platform, you know, really, she runs on more and more dingaling, you know, pics, you know, on in the meetings over in Congress"

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined the picket line in support of striking auto workers in Michigan on Monday. Fetterman said he drove his late-model Ford Bronco from Braddock, Pennsylvania, to Wayne, Michigan, where it was built, to walk the picket line with the United Auto Workers (UAW). “I always stand for the union way of life,” Fetterman said. “I live across the street, you know, from a steel mill and the steel workers, you know, and I came from Pittsburgh. It’s a union town as well and I always stand for the union.”

The big tough pull-a-gun-on-a-black-jogger Senator from Pennsylvania is not as tough as you might think. He's apparently threatened by suits and ties. He's so delicate that Chuck Schumer had to change the rules of Senate decorum to accommodate the special needs guy. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) quietly has directed the Senate's Sergeant at Arms to no longer enforce the chamber's informal dress code for its members, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The new directive will allow Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who tends to favor gym shorts and hoodies over the business attire traditionally required in the chamber,...

First-term Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman gave an odd, animated reaction to the news of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announcing an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Fetterman stopped to talk with reporter Liz Brown-Kaiser in the underbelly of the Senate and was asked about the news of McCarthy's Tuesday announcement. The Pennsylvania Democrat responded to the question in an animated fashion — as his staffer tried to get him to move along. "Oh my God, really?" Fetterman said, backing up from the news and grabbing his head. "Oh my gosh." "You know, it's devastating," the Pennsylvania Democrat continued before...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman revealed a startling new look Saturday that had some social media users likening him to Walter White, the infamous meth-cooking chemistry teacher played by Bryan Cranston on AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” “Lost a bet with Karl,” Fetterman posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, with a selfie showing off a blocky pair of eyeglasses, a bushy new mustache — and the disappearance of his signature gray goatee. The freshman Democrat, 53, did not describe the wager he had made with his 13-year-old son, but the photo sparked hundreds of reactions. “Breaking sad,” one critic snarked. “ITS TIME...

Brain-damaged Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) short-circuited during an interview with the New York Times this week. Fetterman, 53, spent two months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center receiving treatment for clinical depression this year after having a massive stroke last May. John Fetterman has brain damage and can barely string a sentence together. The New York Times asked Fetterman how he has adjusted to life as a senator. “Everyone here is cynical, of course. But we can fight for things that are meaningful. That we should have no hungry. Hanger. Hangry. Hanger. Hangry,” Fetterman said. “Fox News will...

Sen. John Fetterman’s Monday Twitter post celebrating Juneteenth and “Black lives” was mocked by users of the social media platform — who were quick to point out that the Pennsylvania Democrat had once pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black jogger. “Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate emancipation + reflect on the long shadow of systemic racism in America,” Fetterman wrote on the social media platform. “PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter,” the former mayor of Braddock, Pa., added. The post triggered a flood of replies, with some users accusing Fetterman of...

Sen. John Fetterman dressed for a day on a basketball court Saturday to greet President Biden in Philadelphia — then stumbled over his words as he spoke to the media. The Pennsylvania Democrat, in baggy shorts, sneakers, and a light blue hoodie, was unable to pronounce words such as “delegation” and “infrastructure” as he made a garbled one-minute statement after Biden toured the collapsed I-95 overpass that has snarled traffic throughout the northeast. “This is a president that is committed to infructure,” said Fetterman, 53, who continues to grapple with the effects of a stroke he suffered last May as...

As a stroke victim, Senator John Fetterman has my deep sympathy. As well, he has my best wishes for recovery, a task to which he should devote himself full-time. But as he demonstrated yesterday in a hearing covering the damage to Interstate 95 in Philadelphia — a link vital to many of his constituents — he is incapable of representing them in the Senate. I watched with a mixture of pity and horror as he was unable to form basic sentences in English, much less pronounce simple words correctly, when Senator Carper from neighboring Delaware asked him to comment: Senator...

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O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released undercover video of Democrat Senator John Fetterman’s special assistant saying his boss is okay with ‘overturning the Second Amendment.’ “Like, he’d [Fetterman] probably, he’d be okay with like, overturning the Second Amendment. Probably. I think he [Fetterman] would much rather prefer, like nobody has guns at all,” Fetterman’s Special Assistant Luke Borwegan said to an undercover journalist with OMG. Luke Borwegan also claimed he only picks reporters who are puppets and “will say exactly what you f*cking want them to.” Borwegan said Fetterman’s camp only gives stories about brain damaged Senator John Fetterman to...

Sen. John Fetterman's (D-PA) team is calling out detractors who mocked the senator's health struggles while questioning witnesses at a hearing on Tuesday. The junior Pennsylvania senator's team says they have been "clear and open" about his "auditory processing challenges" as Fetterman recovers from a stroke he suffered last year, adding that doctors "expect his abilities to improve." “For many months, we have been clear and open about the fact that John still faces challenges with auditory processing challenges as a result of his stroke. His doctors expect his abilities to improve, but in the meantime, if pathetic losers want...

Federal funds aimed at helping agriculture address the effects of climate change must not be raided to fund agriculture as a whole, said Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.). His move comes as congressional Republicans suggest defunding agricultural conservation programs entirely. “I strongly oppose any measures that would essentially cannibalize Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding in order to pay for the Farm Bill conservation efforts,” he wrote in a letter to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the climate stimulus package the Democrats passed along party lines last September. It contains $19 billion for helping...

Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has finally returned to Capitol Hill, having spent most of his tenure as a U.S. senator at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for clinical depression. Fetterman was discharged on March 31. While it’s good that he’s progressed with mental health issues, we haven’t forgotten about the lingering cognitive impairments that became a major issue of the campaign, as it was clear to anyone that this man wasn’t fit to serve in the U.S. Senate. His May 2022 stroke left him incapacitated for weeks, and he was lucky to survive. Despite this, he chose...

Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) on Monday returned to Capitol Hill looking disheveled and confused after a prolonged absence during which he received treatment for severe depression. Fetterman, 53, spent two months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center receiving treatment for clinical depression. The dazed and confused Senator looked like a slob as he arrived to Capitol Hill.

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Palestine, Ohio. Fetterman held a roundtable with farmers and leaders to talk about the train derailment and how it's impacted farming and to hear their wider concerns ahead of the upcoming farm bill negotiations he'll participate in as part of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The senator also toured a dairy farm in Enon Valley. "It was an honor and a privilege to sit down with the hardworking farmers of Beaver and Lawrence Counties to hear their concerns following the train derailment in East Palestine, what they want to see from my office moving forward after the...

According to this article from NBC News, in 2013, John Fetterman pointed a gun an an unarmed, innocent, law abiding black man.If Democrats are against gun crimes, why did they put John Fetterman into the U.S. Senate instead of into prison?

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has been discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was being treated for depression, his office announced Friday. He will return to the Senate when it returns from recess on April 17, his office said in a news release, confirming CNN’s earlier reporting. “I am so happy to be home,” the freshman Democrat said in a statement. “I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves. Pennsylvanians have always had my back, and I will always have theirs.” Fetterman checked himself in last month “to...