PA-05 · The Issues
What the district asks.
How she votes.
Each issue below sets what constituents are asking for next to Rep. Scanlon's documented record: votes, co-sponsorships, funding, and official statements, with links to primary sources throughout.
Updated September 16, 2026 · 145 votes tracked
Pocketbook
Healthcare Access →
Four Delaware County hospitals have closed since 2022, all under the same private equity backed owner. Longer ambulance rides, crowded ERs, lost jobs.
What Constituents Ask
1,800+
people have signed a petition asking her to co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act (H.R. 3069): one national plan covering everyone, no premiums, no networks.
Her Record
0
co-sponsorships of Medicare for All, the bill targeting health insurers, per Congress.gov's official record. She has introduced bills against private equity hospital operators. Her husband's law firm, Ballard Spahr, is a registered federal lobbyist for Independence Blue Cross, the region's leading insurer.
Accountability
Under the Umbrella →
Her husband's law firm is a registered lobbyist for Independence Blue Cross, the insurer with the most to lose under Medicare for All.
What Constituents Ask
$0
from industries she votes on. The standard constituents expect: disclose everything, refuse the money, or recuse.
Her Record
$96,495
from Ballard Spahr, her top contributor in the 2023 to 2024 cycle, counting the firm's PAC and its employees, plus $17,500 more from the firm's donors so far in 2025 to 2026. Her husband draws a salary, pension, and 401(k) from the firm, a registered federal lobbyist for Independence Blue Cross.
Foreign Policy
Her Record on Gaza →
Constituents have repeatedly asked where their representative stands on unconditional military aid.
What Constituents Ask
$0
in unconditional weapons transfers while international institutions document what those weapons are used for. That is the bar constituents have asked her to hold.
Her Record
$26.4B
in aid to Israel, voted YES (H.R. 8034). July 15, 2026: voted to cut $3.3B in Israel aid, a first. Pro-Israel PACs have given her $74,661 over her career.
Source: Track AIPAC, via fec.gov
In her own words
Full transcript of her October 2026 League of Women Voters candidate interview: eleven questions on prices, health care, corruption, Social Security, Israel, AI, and immigration.
Read the interview transcript →Latest from the House floor
Her three most recent tracked votes, from the House Clerk's official record.
September 16, 2026
Retire through Ownership Act
This bill allows the fiduciary of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) to rely on a valuation provided by an independent valuation expert or business appraiser in determining the fair market value of the plan's securities if the securities are not traded on a national securities exchange (i.e., not publicly traded) and the expert or appraiser follows specified methodologies. In general, ESOPs are defined…
September 16, 2026
Water Resources Development Act
of 2026 This bill authorizes and modifies certain water resource infrastructure projects and programs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and makes related requirements. For example, the bill authorizes and modifies various water resources feasibility studies and projects of the Corps of Engineers, such as studies or projects to maintain ports and harbors, make certain waterways more navigable, reduce flood and…
September 16, 2026
Ratepayer Protection Act
The bill requires state utility regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider implementing a standard to hold certain large-load customers responsible for the costs associated with any generation, transmission, or distribution upgrade of electric service necessary to serve such customers. A large-load customer means a non-residential electric consumer that enters, or requests to enter, an agreement concerning…
Latest co-sponsorships
Bills she's most recently signed onto this Congress, refreshed nightly from Congress.gov's official record.
Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Latest action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.