Scranton Gave Us Joe Biden, ‘The Office’ and the Key to the 2026 Midterms

Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion.

Representative Rob Bresnahan is in a sticky political spot. A Pennsylvania Republican, he ran for the House in 2024 on a vow to end congressional stock trading, only to spend his freshman year becoming one of Congress’s most prolific traders — fifth in terms of the number of trades, as of the end of 2025.

Worse, several of his trades appear to have benefited from some of his congressional........

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