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 3, 2026 · 126 votes tracked
Pocketbook
Healthcare Access →
Three Delaware County hospitals have closed or been downgraded since 2018. Longer ambulance rides, crowded ERs, lost jobs.
What Constituents Ask
1,700+
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. Ballard Spahr, her former law firm and top campaign donor, represents health insurers per its own website.
Accountability
Conflict of Interest →
Who a representative answers to should be the district, not a household balance sheet.
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, plus $17,500 more from the firm's donors so far in 2025 to 2026. Her household draws salary, pension, and 401(k) benefits from the firm, whose health care practice represents health insurers.
Foreign Policy
Her Record on Gaza →
Constituents have repeatedly asked where their representative stands on unconditional military aid.
What Constituents Ask
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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
Latest from the House floor
Her three most recent tracked votes, from the House Clerk's official record.
September 3, 2026
Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act
of 2026 This bill prohibits institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs from engaging in boycotts against Israel. Specifically, IHEs may not engage in a commercial action intended to limit commercial relations with Israel, or with an entity licensed by, regulated by, or organized under the laws of Israel, that is not based on a valid business reason. Further, IHEs…
September 2, 2026
Protecting Domestic Mining Act
of 2025 This bill provides statutory authority for federal agencies to expedite the environmental review of certain mining infrastructure projects. Specifically, the bill permanently makes certain mining infrastructure projects eligible for expedited environmental review under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). This provides statutory authority for similar authorities that were included in…
September 2, 2026
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices
This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment requiring the Supreme Court to be composed of nine Justices—one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.
Latest co-sponsorships
Bills she's most recently signed onto this Congress, refreshed nightly from Congress.gov's official record.
Latest action: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2204)
Latest action: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Latest action: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.