Monday links

Good Monday morning.

In the WashPost, Bob Casey -- fresh off being the only senator to attend a hearing with the Syrian ambassador -- calls for the president of Syria to resign.

Fellow Sen. Pat Toomey writes an op-ed on his bill directing the EPA to consider job impacts in making environmental policy/regulations. (He also addressed the debt limit debate in the Inquirer, saying conservatives should be happy for affecting change in Washington.)

In a letter to the Post-Gazette, the national chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council defends the group against charges that they're writing conservative bills for state assemblies in Pa and elsewhere

Rowdy crowds at Mellon Park are riling up neighbors . . . and, as usual, relations between the mayor's office and councilman Bill Peduto