Category: State House News
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Congressman Barletta Challenges President Obama Over Immigration Order
Colby Itkowitz Allentown Morning Call Rep. Barletta has asked House panel to investigate whether the administration is allowed to use ‘prosecutorial discretion’ in immigration decisions. U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who gained […]
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Tax Credit Touted As Aid For Pa.’s Failing Schools
Beaver County Times A Pennsylvania state lawmaker whose proposal for a voucher-like tax credit that is designed to help students leave the state’s worst schools said Monday that those schools […]
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Investigators Laud Proposed Expansion Of Pa. Wiretap Law
Philadelphia Inquirer Police officers and lawyers in Pennsylvania have long been frustrated by the state’s wiretap law, which requires both parties to consent to a recording, and which was last […]
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Senate To Take Up Ward’s Child Abuse Bill
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review State Sen. Kim Ward hopes to get a bill increasing penalties for failure to report suspected child abuse signed into law later this year. The bill was approved […]
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Liquor Privatization Vote Postponed Until Monday, Maybe Longer
PA Independent It belongs to Pennsylvania, at least for now. Richard Granger, clad in a bright yellow shirt, is pleased. He stood alongside dozens of people Wednesday on the marble […]
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House Begins Debate On Liquor Store Privatizatiion Bill
Brad Bumsted Pittsburgh Tribune-Review For the first time in Pennsylvania history, a chamber of the Legislature today started to debate legislation to privatize the state liquor stores and shift the […]
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Rep. Mike Turzai Has New Plan To Privatize State Liquor Stores
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Months after a committee watered down his proposal for dismantling the state liquor system, House Majority Leader Mike Turzai intends to bring a new plan to a vote […]
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Gov. Tom Corbett Defends State Budget
KDKA Governor Tom Corbett, R-Pennsylvania, was in Pittsburgh today. He started bright and early and used the nation’s oldest radio commercial radio station, NewsRadio 1020 KDKA, to talk about issues […]
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Legislature Must Show Fiscal Constraint — Now More Than Ever
Rep. Stephen Bloom Harrisburg Patriot-News A strange thing happened between 2010, when Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly said “no” to unsustainable growth in government spending, and 2012, when some legislators inexplicably started […]