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Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Steven Singer’s GadflyOnTheWallBlog. Check out his great work documenting the attacks on public education and the teachers, parents, and students who are fighting back. Check out all his work […]
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 […]
Over the past couple of weeks, it’s been reported that there’s a schism between House Speaker Mike Turzai and Majority Leader David Reed. The tension boiled over when Speaker Turzai blabbed his plans to oust […]
It has been six years since I’ve had health insurance, and over 15 years and counting since I’ve been on a private insurance policy, but I am covered once again thanks to the Affordable Care […]
During the budget stalemate, amendments designed to neuter the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s regulation of the natural gas industry were slipped into the budget framework that Governor Wolf and the Senate Caucuses agreed to. […]
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