Last month, when the Pennsylvania House Republicans sunk the pension reform bill – a part of the budget package that Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, House Democrats and Democratic Governor Tom Wolf agreed upon – Senate […]
It appears that the Pennsylvania House is a black hole. It is a place where sensible policy goes to die, and it’s latest legislative victim appears to be Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, Senate Bill 3. […]
Oh really? The idea that lawmakers shouldn’t get paid if a budget isn’t passed is a great sound bite, but terrible policy. #pabudget#sorrynotsorry — Jason E. High (@jasonehigh) January 4, 2016 According to Pennwatch, […]
The article was updated to reflect details on two other open vacancies. The article has been updated to correct the timing of the election after a writ has been issued. Stacking the deck? Fiscally irresponsible? […]
There are many theories as to why the latest budget deal blew up. So let’s run threw a few of them. Did They Have the Votes on the House Floor? This is theory number one. […]
UPDATE: The House of Representatives have passed the amendment by a 100-99 vote with three Representatives choosing not to vote. As previously reported, the vote needed to be a 102 majority, but Speaker Turzai claimed […]
Over the weekend, State Representative Todd Stephens dropped out of the Attorney General’s primary race when the Southeastern Republican Caucus voted to support State Senator John Rafferty 55-2. One of Todd Stephens’ largest supporters was State Senator […]
There are plenty of descriptors that can explain what is happening in the House with getting a budget completed, and one of them should be “dumpster fire.” For the past several months, we’ve been told […]
House Democrats maybe an extreme minority in the lower chamber, but in a parliamentary way of thinking, they hold all the chips when it comes to ending the budget stalemate because of the dysfunction and […]
For the third consecutive year, zombie amendments that give grift to a small natural gas non-profit and attack abortion providers have made it into the Senate’s Fiscal Code, HB 1327. In 2013 and 2014, the Raging Chicken […]
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