January 16, 2007 (LPAC)--Three more Pennsylvania cities shocked by foreclosures have called on Congress to enact Lyndon LaRouche's Homeowners and Bank Protection Act proposal, making 31 cities in the state, out of 50 or more that LPAC organizers expect to join the drive for HBPA. Shamokin, a city of about 8,000 people in Northumberland County, the western edge of the anthracite coal region north of Harrisburg, is the third municipality in the Congressional District represented by Democratic freshman congressman Chris Carney to pass a resolution of support. The City of Connellsville is in Democratic Rep. John Murtha's district. A member of the City administration told LaRouche PAC she was shocked that Congress has {not} yet acted on the HBPA. "We just handled 3 lien letters in 2 days on homes going into foreclosure," she reported. "We've never seen that before." Wellsboro is in Republican John Peterson's Congressional District. The Borough secretary told a LaRouchePAC organizer that the Council "embraced it wholeheartedly."