Mar. 09, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House Appropriations Committee held its penultimate day of budget hearings. The committee heard from the Department of Human Services (DHS).
Mar. 09, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Parke Wentling (Crawford/Erie/Lawrence/Mercer) announced today a $29,910 grant, funded through the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund, was approved for the Albion Area Public Library.
Mar. 09, 2022 /
It’s highly likely everyone has seen an ad or a massive billboard touting impressive starting salaries. One billboard I recently saw while driving on Route 30 was for work at a local York County manufacturing plant with pay of $35 an hour. It wasn’t the stroke of the governor’s pen that drove up these wages. Rather, it was the free market.
Mar. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Citing the nation’s and the world’s dependence on Russia for energy resources, Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford/Potter) joined more than a dozen colleagues in the state House Tuesday to unveil a package of bills designed to maximize energy production in the Commonwealth.
Mar. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Republicans on Tuesday announced their legislative plans to divest from Russian financial assets and invest in freedom by empowering Pennsylvania’s energy producers to meet new oil and gas demands.
Mar. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House Appropriations Committee held its ninth day of budget hearings. The committee heard from Penn State University, Temple University, the University of Pittsburgh, Lincoln University and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA).
Mar. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House Appropriations Committee held its eighth day of budget hearings. The committee heard from the Department of Education (PDE).
Mar. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford/Potter) is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to update its per capita impact indicator and thresholds to ensure all citizens and communities impacted by natural disasters are treated fairly.
Mar. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – A recent Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) report found there is a lack of correlation between education spending and student proficiency. During the House Appropriations Committee’s budget hearing this morning, Rep. Torren Ecker (R-Adams/Cumberland) asked Department of Education officials about the findings in the report.
Mar. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – House Majority Environmental Resources and Energy (ERE) Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) sent the following letter today in response to Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest fake climate science driven, Chicken Little refusal to support the Ukrainian people by rejecting all Russian imports and expanding domestic energy production:
Mar. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Sheryl Delozier (R-Lower Allen) invites residents of the 88th Legislative District to a shredder event she will be hosting this Saturday, March 12, from 9-11 a.m. in the parking lot of the Lower Allen Township building, 2233 Gettysburg Road, Camp Hill.
Mar. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Tim O’Neal (R-Washington) today announced he will be hosting a Pizza and Policy event on Friday, March 11, at the North Franklin Municipal Building.
Mar. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster), House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), and House Human Services Committee Chairman Frank Farry (R-Bucks) sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf and Department of General Services Secretary Curt Topper Friday requesting an inventory of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stockpile accumulated by the Commonwealth during COVID-19 and its potential deployment to Ukraine to help with medical needs during the humanitarian crisis resulting from Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war against the country.
Mar. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) issued the following statement in response to Pennsylvania System of School Assessments being released for the 2020-21 school year:
Mar. 03, 2022 /
BRADFORD – The final Property Tax/Rent Rebate clinics hosted by Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint) will be held next week; however, assistance will continue to be available at his district offices in Bradford, Coudersport and Kane.
Mar. 03, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House Appropriations Committee held its seventh day of budget hearings. The committee heard from the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP):
Mar. 03, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming), majority chairman of the House Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, on Wednesday led an informational meeting to review three programs over which the committee has oversight.
Mar. 02, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House Appropriations Committee held its sixth day of budget hearings. The committee heard from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) and the Department of Labor & Industry (L&I):
Mar. 02, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming), majority chairman of the House Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, on Tuesday convened a public hearing to examine Pennsylvania’s emergency medical services (EMS) crisis.
Mar. 02, 2022 /
BUTLER – Rep. Marci Mustello (R-Butler) will be teaming up with the Butler County Chamber of Commerce to host a free Identity Theft Seminar on Tuesday, March 8.