As the 114th Congress convenes, Pennsylvania's senators are gearing up for the challenges ahead.
The lists of to-do's for Senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey are pretty long, but they each have a few they will be pushing pretty hard.
In 2015 Senator Bob Casey and Senator Pat Toomey say they are going to focus on economic growth.
"The most important thing that we can do in the congress is to focus on the middle class and on wages. If we do that the economy booms," said Casey.
"Most of that in my view will come in the category of pushing back on excessive regulation and preventing the government from blocking constructive pro-growth like the Keystone pipeline," said Toomey.
Toomey said the Republican controlled Senate will push for a broad energy policy and will likely pass the Keystone Pipeline.
The controversial pipeline system that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast, and is waiting for federal approval for further expansion.
It's a measure President Obama has vowed to veto, citing the unknown environmental impacts of the expansion.
But Casey, Toomey's Democratic counterpart, has backed the Keystone Pipeline in the past and could do so again when the issue goes to a vote.
Casey said the pipeline is just one issue on a long list facing Congress, from infrastructure to tax reform, and the budget.
Casey said he has his eyes on raising the federal minimum wage.
"The minimum wage is an issue that relates not just to the minimum wage earners, their family their children but it also is a ladder or a rung on the ladder to climb into the middle class," Casey said.
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