Chris Deluzio

I’m Chris Deluzio. I’m running for re-election because patriotism demands courage in this moment. Don’t Give Up the Ship! 🇺🇸

Trump’s mass deportation regime remains out of control, with ICE agents ripping away our neighbors’ liberties and lives. This is not what the American people want, and it’s why I voted NO to plowing billions more into ICE.

Military strikes and a naval blockade are back in the Iran War. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. The American people don’t want another disastrous war in the Middle East. They don’t want billions spent on bombs and war, when their healthcare is being taken away right here at home.

I’m helping Democrats flip PA GOP-held Congressional seats. John Fetterman is helping Republicans fundraise to beat us.

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, “could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that was true.” By the end of the story, Mulligan never gets the chance to prove his boast because electric, diesel, and gasoline shovels have taken away nearly all of Mary Anne’s work. Still, he finds an ingenious way for the old steam shovel to remain useful. When Burton wrote those words in her 1939 children’s classic, she was capturing the painful sunset of an era. It was a lament for the living, breathing machines of American progress, cast aside for the newest efficient technology. For more than half a century, that sentiment seemed final. The same technological advances that displaced Mary Anne also rendered America’s steam locomotives obsolete. The machines that had helped build our cities, transported critically needed goods during World War II, and connected the nation from coast to coast were, in a remarkably short time, dumped into gravel pits, relegated to history books, or left to rust in forgotten rail yards. But this week in Altoona, the Union Pacific Railroad’s Big Boy No. 4014 offered a thunderous rebuttal. Much of the credit belongs to its engineer, Ed Dickens, who has spent his adult life serving his country, first in the military and now by helping bring this historic steam locomotive back to life. In doing so, he has shown that Americans still value hard work, shared history, and community. Across the country, crowds have gathered along city streets, farmland, and small-town rail lines just to watch Dickens and Big Boy thunder past. #America250 #Bigboy washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

Helping the Republicans raise money to spend against Democrats is bad, right?

These stories are only getting more common the deeper private equity sinks its claws into our youth sports. The good news is we aren’t powerless here. Congress can pass my Let Kids Play Act, drive corporate vultures out of youth sports, and lower these costs for parents.

It's not a competitive market. That's why it's so expensive. When one firm owns the leagues, the teams, the tournaments, the facilities, the apparel, and the tech, families aren't customers choosing a product. They're captives choosing between ransom payments and their kids being left out of the game entirely. So who pays for free soccer? Same answer as who pays for national parks. We've called youth sports a national priority for 70 years — Title IX, the Amateur Sports Act, executive orders from Eisenhower to Trump. We just never funded it. Private equity filled the voic, and now families pay $40 billion a year for a luxury good that should be a public one.

Just opposing Donald Trump is not enough. Democrats need to seize this moment and be crystal clear in how we will restore the American Dream…and who we’ll fight to do it.

When it comes to youth sports, we do not have to accept only corporate profits mattering. There’s a public interest at stake with our kids and deciding, as a society, that sports should not be a luxury item for kids. Even if you’re just focused on winning - the USMNT won’t improve if future Landon Donovans can’t afford to join a youth team.

Going to a ball game shouldn’t be a rip off. Billionaire owners use public money to build their stadiums and then fleece people from the ticket line to the concession stand. I have a bill to do something about it.

Mainers should have a choice for Senator who can stand up to corruption and corporate power—without being forced to ignore serious allegations of sexual assault. Graham Platner should end his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

U.S. against the world. Let’s get it done USMNT 🇺🇸

Deluzio: I introduced this Let Kids Play Act with Senator Murphy and some others to get private equity and vulture investors out of youth sports. Let’s start with the problem: they have turned youth sports into a luxury item. They’ve jacked up the cost for families. This is now like a $40 billion industry making money off parents who want their kids to play. So we go right at some of these practices in the bill. We’re trying to kick out these vulture investors. This isn’t just like some other part of the economy—we’re talking about youth sports, where there is a good and an interest that is bigger than just making money. Kids having a shot to play matters for society. It matters for the country. And I see these vulture investors, and I think they should have nothing to do with and be nowhere near making money off the backs of kids.

Youth sports are way too expensive today. Why? Because private equity decided to capitalize on our kids’ playing time for profit. Congress needs to pass my Let Kids Play Act now and get these BS vulture schemes away from our kids sports.

🚨 Endorsement Alert 🚨 I'm incredibly honored to have the endorsement of @ChrisForPA. Rep. Deluzio has never stopped fighting for hardworking families, taking on special interests, and being an ally to labor. I'm excited to join him in the fight in Washington.

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Justice prevails 🇺🇸

Thanks to everyone in Midland and Leetsdale who turned out to celebrate Independence Day together. We beat the heat! Wishing everyone across #PA17 a happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸

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