Honorable Mary Gay Scanlon
United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Democrat
Representative Scanlon, of the Fifth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. She served as an attorney at the Education Law Center, and then joined the law firm Ballard Spahr as pro bono counsel. She sits on the following committees: House Judiciary, where she is vice chair; Rules; and the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. The following is from a March 6, 2019, House floor statement on H.R.1, the For the People Act. As you know, this past weekend, I had the honor of traveling to Selma, Alabama, with over 40…