under the Capitol dome

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your 2010 PA state budget: On-time, bi-partisan, balanced and without any tax increases.

June 30, 2010

TweetJust a few minutes ago, the House passed a balanced state Budget on time and sent it to the Governor for his signature which is expected shortly. Just like in last year’s budget, we heard loud and clear the cries for no broad-based tax increases and have again answered that call. Not only is this [...]

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"Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit."

March 9, 2010
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Blogging the Table Games Bill- We'll Do it Live!

December 14, 2009

Tweet 2:29 PM: Here we are, sitting on the House floor, debating amendments to SB 711, which is the bill that would legalize table games in Pennsylvania. We’re still debating because the House Republicans spent most of last week employing childish filibustering tactics in an attempt to delay a vote. I thought I would multi-task [...]

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Maybe Reading Isn't So Fundamental After All

December 8, 2009

Tweet Well here’s a new one. We were on the House Floor today, preparing to discuss SB 711, which is the bill that will legalize table games in Pennsylvania. Suddenly, a Republican representative made a motion to have the bill read aloud on the House Floor before we could move on. On its face, this [...]

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Want corruption exposed? This is what it looks like.

November 24, 2009

Tweet Last week, the Pennsylvania Attorney General finally issued the next round of indictments in his ongoing “Bonusgate” investigation of corruption in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Last year, twelve individuals (two representatives and ten staffers) were indicted for a variety of charges, mainly dealing with the use of public money for political campaigns in the Democratic [...]

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Turn Your Head and Cough

March 12, 2008

Tweet It’s 6:48 PM, and as we near ten straight hours of debate on major health care legislation that will provide coverage for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Pennsylvanians, there are few points that have been driven home over and over by many of my Republican colleagues. No matter what, we need to make sure [...]

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"Two hour delay, no morning committee meetings."

November 14, 2007

TweetWe weren’t able to hold any votes up here in Harrisburg yesterday because the giant electronic board that displays information about the current bill as well as our votes was malfunctioning. As a result, there wasn’t much choice but to adjourn the House until they got it fixed. As I was walking back to my [...]

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Shameless Self-Promotion of the Day

November 2, 2007

TweetThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an article today about a certain State Legislator who is taking up the issue of reforming Pennsylvania’s Power of Attorney law. Sounds like a pretty good guy to me. In fact, I’m giving him the ultra-coveted “Double Thumbs Up from a Guy with a Security Detail Consisting Entirely of Storm Troopers”. [...]

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I just threw up in my mouth a little. Thanks, PHEAA.

October 24, 2007

Tweet While the good folks over at PHEAA were too busy signing their bonus checks and slapping one another on the backside for their unparalleled standards of excellence, they also managed to find another way to screw over students in Pennsylvania. It was reported this week that PHEAA is cutting funding on certain state programs [...]

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