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The following is the transcript of an interview with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Tom Suozzi, Democrat of New York, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on March 9, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face the Nation. We're joined now by the co-chairs of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick… Read more »

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Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) joined CSIS's Philip Luck to discuss worker shortages in critical sectors of the U.S. economy and possible policy solutions such as immigration reform. In addition, CSIS Adjunct Fellow Jason Schenker, the author of a CSIS report on the subject, presented his findings on important trends in U.S. demographics and workforce needs. Read more »

Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs — Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) — joined Fox News’ Bret Baier to discuss opportunities for bipartisanship in the 119th Congress.   Read more »

The years-long effort to repeal a pair of controversial tax rules that negatively impact some federal workers’ retirement income got a boost Thursday in the form of the formal endorsement of the House Problem Solvers Caucus. The Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), introduced last April by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garrett Graves, R-La., would repeal Social Security’s windfall elimination provision and government pension offset. Read more »

Two congressional members of the Problem Solvers Caucus spoke about bipartisanship at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting in Washington, DC. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), chair of the caucus, and Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) focused on opportunities for both parties to work with the nation’s mayors to get things done for the American people. Watch the… Read more »

(CNN) — With government funding slated to run out September 30, the leaders of the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus told CNN on Sunday that “all options are on the table” to force a vote on their alternative stopgap plan to avert a shutdown. There is no consensus plan to keep the government funded, and persistent opposition by a bloc of conservatives to… Read more »

Sept 20 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives late on Wednesday announced they had embraced a framework for legislation providing stopgap funds to avert government shutdowns starting on Oct. 1. Without prompt action by Congress, existing money to fully operate a vast array of federal programs expires at midnight Sept. 30 with the end of the… Read more »

A bipartisan group of House members that’s played a role in brokering recent legislative deals plans to work on a proposal to beef up an existing tax credit for families with young children. Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who co-chairs the Problem Solvers Caucus, said the group is planning to launch a subcommittee to work on issues associated with the child… Read more »

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers released an outline Wednesday for raising the debt ceiling, providing a competing option to the emerging Republican-only plan. The proposal is vague. It outsources the task of finding ways to reduce the deficit in the short term to appropriators in a government funding bill and kicks the job of proposing long-term solutions to a new… Read more »