State Rep. Todd Eachus has served the Greater Hazleton Area since 1996, and was selected in 2006 by his colleagues to lead the Majority Policy Committee – the committee charged with addressing the tough issues by gathering public input at hearings and crafting common-sense legislative solutions to help working families.

Coming from Luzerne County, an area with a rapidly growing population of senior citizens, Todd quickly established himself in Harrisburg as the “PACE Guy,” the lawmaker who successfully led the charge for historic expansions of the state’s senior citizen prescription drug programs. Hundreds of thousands of senior citizens in the Commonwealth now have access to affordable medicine thanks to the efforts of Todd Eachus, and he continues to seek out innovative programs working with insurance companies and drug manufacturers to fight to make sure every Pennsylvanian has access to the medicine they need. Todd has even been tapped by Washington to advise on legislation helping seniors, when he was appointed as a primary delegate for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging charged with making aging policy recommendations to the President and Congress and to assist the public and private sectors in promoting dignity, health, independence and economic security for current and future generations of older people

Todd Eachus grew up in the heart of Coal Country, and lives just a few miles from the site of the Lattimer Mines massacre – so it’s no surprise he has been one of the strongest and most vocal advocates of organized Labor in the legislature.

Todd opposed – and always will oppose – any effort by anti-Union lawmakers to make Pennsylvania a so-called “Right-to-Work” state

• Todd believes that using Union labor on taxpayer-funded projects saves money in the long run, because skilled craftsmen do the job right the first time
• Todd successfully fought to end mandatory overtime for nurses to help caregivers protect themselves and their patients.
• Todd fought to protect injured workers when misguided lawmakers attempted to change the worker’s compensation laws.
• Todd fought to come down hard on contractors that use illegal immigrant labor.
• Todd is fighting to stop outsourcing by requiring all state contracts be conducted with companies that use Pennsylvania workers.
• Todd fought against arbitrary spending caps – the so-called “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” – that would put a severe burden on school districts and public projects and put lives at risk.

Todd is working hard to cut property taxes – he was one of the key supporters of the job-creating slot gaming laws, and he wants to do more to take the burden off seniors and make it easier for young working families to get their piece of the American Dream by buying a first home in Pennsylvania.

Todd was born September 26, 1962 in Harrisburg, Pa., moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1964 and graduated from Wilkes-Barre Coughlin High School in 1980. He received his bachelor’s from Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, Calif. in 1984, where he also was a three-year College Football Letterman, Pomona/Pitzer Fight¬ing Sagehens. He married Ellen Kusiak-Eachus of Plains, Pa. in 1985. They have three sons: Anthony, Benjamin and Nathan.

Todd began his public service career in 1985 on the staff of Congressman Frank J. Guarini, until opening his own small business in 1990 as President and Owner of Portable Space in Exeter, which he ran until being elected to the Pa. State House in 1996.